What Is Faith Quotes

One and one make 2. But if you bring 1 and 1 close together they make 11.

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!

Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.

Its time to trust my instincts, close my eyes and leap

Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.

Faith and optimism are contagious.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.

How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!

Christianity does not set faith against thinking. It sets faith against assuming.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.

If in anything I have faith in something you could call the human spirit - I have faith it will always save itself at the last minute.

God uproots the vine that He Himself has not planted.

[L]et us believe that all is going along the best in the world when we take no satisfaction in it, provided we humble ourselves for this and redouble our confidence in God.

I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.

Christ is the door that opens into God's presence and lets the soul into His very bosom, faith is the key that unlocks the door; but the Spirit is He that makes this key.

He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great defenders of Christendom. (The other was the pope.)

My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.

That faith which is required of us is then perfect when it produces in us a fiduciary assent to whatever the Gospel has revealed.

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.

Fear can paralyze us and keep us from believing God and stepping out in faith. The devil loves a fearful Christian!

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?

Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.

Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.

Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.

Knowing God is like listening to beautiful music. His words have power. He lifts me up & soothes my soul. He makes me dance. He gives me joy.

God arranges everything for us, so that we need have no more fear or trouble and may be quite sure that all things will come right in the end.

Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!

Spiritual warfare is the unseen battle God wages on your behalf.

Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for.

I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.

The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.

Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer.

Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite.

For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived.

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.