What Is Faith Quotes

Pure love is in the will alone; it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it; it loves, if we may so express it, without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

Today is the day you have to start believing in yourself. No one can do it for you anymore.

Leap, and the net will appear.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

Faith is the soul's adventure.

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.

If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness

This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.

The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector

To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. -Rose

Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.

Faith in oneself unlocks those hidden powers that all of us have, but that so few of us use.

Faith is more than thinking something is true. Faith is thinking something is true to the extent that we act on it.

Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary textbooks of astronomy, geology, biology, and anthropology.

You do not need a great faith, but faith in a great God.

Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

Assurance is the fruit that grows out of the root of faith.

Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.

Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

...the wise providence of God orders our affairs in many different ways and lovingly bestows on each one of us what is appropriate and profitable both for virtuous deeds and the mysteries of faith.

Your power is in your faith. Keep it and pass it on to other bloods.

And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith.

The wisdom coming from above, the faith that sweetly works by love.

The most important thing in a person's life is his faith and how he translates his faith into practical deeds.

Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms.

Let us listen to what all the faithful say, because in every one of them the Spirit of God breathes.

Neither the true faith nor eternal salvation is to be found outside the Holy Catholic Church.

The weakest faith gets the same strong Christ as does the strongest faith.

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

Faith is having a positive attitude about what you can do and not worrying at all about what you can't do.

Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual knowledge in the soul.

Your calling is to bless lives. . . . Just the way you smile or the way you offer to help someone can build their faith.

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.

If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened.

Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.

The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).

There is a very real danger of our putting our faith in our sermon rather than in the Spirit. Our faith should not be in the sermon, it should be in the Holy Spirit Himself.

Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.