What Is Faith Quotes

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe but each has to believe by himself.

We cannot hand our faith to one another. ... Even in the Middle Ages when faith was theoretically uniform it was always practically individual.

I believe devoutly in the Word. The Word can save all destroy all stop the inevitable and express the inexpressible.

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and furthermore it is to act as if He did exist.

Faith without works is dead.

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.

I pray hard work hard and leave the rest to God.

All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making.

I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith.

Faith is a curious thing It must be renewed it has its own spring.

However much we do to avoid them we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

To disbelieve is easy to scoff is simple to have faith is harder.

Faith to my mind is a stiffening process a sort of mental starch.

Faith is ... knowing with your heart.

Faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

Faith as an intellectual state is self-reliance.

Faith is a theological virtue that inclines the mind under the influence of the will and grace to yield firm assent to revealed truths because of the authority of God.

What's up is faith what's down is heresy.

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

Faith is an encounter in which God takes and keeps the initiative.

Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Faith is a bridge across the gulf of death.

Faith is verification by the heart confession by the tongue action by the limbs.

Faith is a certitude without proofs ... a sentiment for it is a hope it is an instinct for it precedes all outward instruction.

Faith is obedience nothing else.

Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher some spiritual hero.

Faith is building on what you know is here so you can reach what you know is there.

Faith is a gift of God which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menaces of torture.

Faith is primarily a process of identification the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.

Faith implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater.

The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.

Faith is the little night-light that burns in a sick-room as long as it is there the obscurity is not complete we turn towards it and await the daylight.

Faith is an act of self-consecration in which the will the intellect and the affections all have their place.

Faith is courage it is creative while despair is always destructive.

Faith is to believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.

Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket then counting your blessings before they hatch.

Faith is a kind of betting or speculation.

Without faith nothing is possible. With it nothing is impossible.

Not truth but faith it is that keeps the world alive.

You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.

Out of the chill and the shadow Into the thrill and the shine Out of the dearth and the famine Into the fullness divine.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety or by the handle of faith.

Father! Blessed word.

Faith assuages guides restores.

We do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if it is not granted to us and then we kneel and believe.

Faith is the sturdiest the most manly of the virtues. It lies behind our pluckiest... strivings. It is the virtue of the storm just as happiness is the virtue of the sunshine.

There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith ... Can you reduce it to practice? If not have none of it.