What Is Faith Quotes

Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding ... the invisible in the visible.

Let nothing disturb you nothing frighten you all things are passing God never changes.

Fear imprisons faith liberates fear paralyzes faith empowers fear disheartens faith encourages fear sickens faith heals fear makes useless faith makes serviceable.

Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo no one was there.

I knew without a glimmer of doubt that all things in the universe were connected by a living truth that would not relent its continuing search for wholeness until every form of life was united.

Unity not uniformity must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated not annihilated not absorbed.

Spiritual love is a position of standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship indignation and compassion.

Patience with others is Love Patience with self is Hope Patience with God is Faith.

God is universal confined to no spot defined by no dogma appropriated by no sect.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness contagion of trust can make trust.

You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity you wouldn't have anything.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet I go.

In order to experience everyday spirituality we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

We must move from asking God to take care of the things that are breaking our hearts to praying about the things that are breaking His heart.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.

With all this wide and beautiful creation before me the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound.

The country in which I live is not my native country that lies elsewhere and it must always be the center of my longings.

Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.

Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.

Your faith is what you believe not what you know.

That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do no explanation is necessary.

Our body is not made of iron. Our strength is not that of stone. Live and hope in the Lord and let your service be according to reason.

No I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.

It is faith and not reason which impels men to action. ... Intelligence is content to point out the road but never drives us along it.

Faith consists not in ignorance but in knowledge and that not only of God but also of the divine will.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm a state of intellectual magnificence which we must not squander on our way through life.

Faith is the continuation of reason.

If we were logical the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings and we have faith and we have hope.

Reason is the triumph of the intellect faith of the heart.

It is as absurd to argue men as to torture them into believing.

Reason's voice and God's Nature's and Duty's never are at odds.

Faith is the result of the act of the will following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

So often we have a kind of vague wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.

If life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels it is a victory to him who believes.

It is by believing in roses that one brings them to bloom.

If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure then believe.

A faith that sets bounds to itself that will believe so much and no more that will trust so far and no further is none.

Doubt is a necessity of the mind faith of the heart.

For the truly faithful no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt no miracle is sufficient.

My faith has wavered but has saved me.

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

O thou of little faith why didst thou doubt?

In the midst of your doubts don't forget how many of the important questions God does answer.

How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.

Faith is kind of like jumping out of an airplane at ten thousand feet. If God doesn't catch you you splatter. But how do you know whether or not He is going to catch you unless you jump out?

If it wasn't for faith there would be no living in this world we couldn't even eat hash with any safety.

Let us move on and step out boldly though it be into the night and we can scarcely see the way. A Higher Intelligence than the mortal sees the road before us.

Faith is an assent of the mind and a consent of the heart consisting mainly of belief and trust.