What Is Faith Quotes

Faith no doubt moves mountains, but not necessarily to where we want them.

Live by faith, not by sight.

For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

It took seven years from the time I wrote Mad Men until it finally got on the screen. I lived every day with that script as if it were going to happen tomorrow. That’s the faith you have to have.

Let the child feel Christ is near him; By your faith will grow his own; Death nor danger will affright him If he never feels alone.

The Bible is full of stories of men and women who've found themselves in frightening situations but who chose to look up rather than look down - look up in faith - and God got them through it.

I try to help people see they're going to have these times in which they turn away, in which they deny Christ and their faith grows cold, their convictions weakened; but Jesus is waiting.

Gratitude develops faith. The surest path out of a slump is marked by the road sign "thank you, God."

I was praying about what I needed to teach. I felt it wasn't time to move out of the theme of Romans, which is salvation by grace through faith.

I was about 21 when I read that [Mere Christianity], and my faith was really being shaken during those days. Its a great, classic book.

You cover 50 yards on the playing field of faith with a story that downplays your success. You cover 3 yards, or you may even end up backward, with anything that up-plays or promotes you.

You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear.

We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow.

Unmet expectations are tough when it's your wife or your husband, but it's really tough when it's God. And yet, it can be a time of growth and a time of faith, a time of understanding who God is.

I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.

Every faith has its story; every faith has its roots.

Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic of 'old age'; they contribute to it.

Faith is the evidence of the unseen.

It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.

Let the gods into your life and you rapidly lose faith in the natural laws.

Faith does help mourners survive their loss, some studies suggest; but I imagine one still struggles.

My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life's canvas.

Between the truth and the faith, we must always choose the first one.

I have no faith at all in believers, because they are so far from the truths! Have respect only to those who are close to the truths!

With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth!

My dad taught me my faith, and I believe what he taught me. The man never lied to me in his life.

It is the shared bad faith by which individuals help each other sustain the illusion that they can shirk their spiritual destiny by joining the public.

Through service to others, we develop a Christlike love and we experience joy. Service teaches patience and long-suffering as well as gentleness, goodness, and faith.

Startups are based in faith, and the ones that succeed have no fear.

I was going to be a writer. One person believed I could do it: my mom. Having her faith in me was like carrying around the Hammer of Thor.

Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.

In the absence of fear there is little faith.

Faith is always about the Future.

If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have faith in their own religion.

Call it stubborn, call it ignorant, call it what you want, but I don't think I have to join a particular faith or culture or creed or religion just to fit in.

With faith and love God's given, springing from the hope we know. We will pray the joy you'll live in, is the strength that now you show.

Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.

I want to state unequivocally for the world, as well as for the markets, as well as for the American people: I have no doubt that we will not lose the full faith and credit of the United States.

To have faith is to believe unconditionally.

You aren't staying in heaven because you still need to purify the mind. Your faith is powerful, but it is invested in what you believe you are, and most of what you believe about yourself is a lie.

Take your faith out of the lies! Free your faith, and you will see how powerful you become.

For many years, I used to pray as an act of power, but that was before I had 100% faith in myself.

What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.

Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how to read it and then study it prayerfully.

I always have faith that good things will happen regardless.

Just know this, that God is faithful, even when you don't have faith yourself.

It's time for the government to scale back, not for people of faith to scale back!

When I worked at the White House in the mid-1990s, I would not have dreamed of sharing my beliefs on faith with my colleagues.