What Is Faith Quotes

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Your soul must hold fast to Him, you must follow after Him in your thoughts, you must tread His ways by faith, not in outward show.

To put into practice the teachings of our holy faith, it is not enough to convince ourselves that they are true; we must love them. Love united to faith makes us practice our religion.

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.

There is no way that we can understand it all. So the heart's response to that mystery is faith - a trust in the fundamental orderliness of the universe.

We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

Just because I believe in God, just because I have faith in God, it doesn't mean that I'm immune. It doesn't mean that I'm immortal.

Faith is expectancy. You do not receive what you want; you do not receive what you pray for, not even what you say you have faith in. You will always receive what you actually expect.

True faith is ever connected with hope.

Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself.

All we need to begin with is a #‎ dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now.

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.

The fear of hell is the basis for the Christian faith.

Whatever happens, do not lose hold of the two main ropes of life - hope and faith.

All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.

As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others.

The greatest gift we have is the gift of life.

Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank.

No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still; with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be.

We are unhappy because we no longer have our self esteem. We are unhappy, because we no longer believe we are a special miracle, a special creation of God. We have lost faith in ourselves.

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate.

Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.

If someone analyzed your words today, what percentage would be tender, encouraging, uplifting, faith-building, and joyful? Would it match Christ's proportions?

God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.

To keep the faith, run with the right crowd.

In the God of all creation, we put our faith and trust. And give our lives to you, cause you gave your life for us.

You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth.

A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love-from a belief in what is not real, to faith in that which is. That shift in perception changes everything.

I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love and charity.

It's about time we start criticizing faith.

Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?

When things are difficult, smile by faith. Don't wait until you feel better.

Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith vain.

Sometimes you have to smile by faith. If you'll smile by faith, soon the joy will follow.

Faith is the andtidote for fear

Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.

The 'Always Keep the Faith' tattoo I have on the front represents my desire to protect my beliefs.

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

No work nor deed of ours whatsoever, no not faith itself, can be the condition of the covenant of grace properly so called; but only Christ's fulfilling all righteousness.

Challenges will come to you, but as you trust in God, they will strengthen your faith.

Faith goes beyond reason. It goes beyond what you can see. But it is as real as anything you can touch or feel.

I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us.

We must hold enormous faith in ourselves.

Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.

Faith is the force of life.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.