What Is Faith Quotes

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

Faith is a gift of God bestowed as a reward for personal righteousness.

Honestly, happy. This happened for a reason. By having to answer that question in front of a national audience, God was testing my character and faith. I'm glad I stayed true to myself.

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

Doubt is the vestibule of faith.

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason.

Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.

We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present.

Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.

Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.

The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears.

Worry and faith just don't mix.

Reason had overthrown faith, and had defeated the purpose of God.

The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.

Wash your face every morning in a bath of praise.

This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

Let your tears fall because of sin, but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man.

Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.

Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.

Those of us who have been lucky enough to experience a calling in our work have a certain faith and peace of mind that it's exactly when we're supposed to be doing.

Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience is the early blossom on the tree of faith.

If we don't put our faith to work we will soon discover that we have a faith that doesn't work!

God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.

Every picture I make, every experience of my private life, every lesson I learn are the keys to my future. And I have faith in it.

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.

[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.

Faith in the guidance of Spirit gives you the courage to take risks, because you're assured that whatever happens, a Higher Power is on your side and you will survive.

It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of [faith].

Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.

Faith, in its most correct form, never removes responsibility; it removes fear of responsibility. The results are complete opposites with the greater saying, 'God's will is my delight.'

Faith is the profound knowing that comes before reality confirms it.

Embrace your dreams and never lose faith in yourself. Your dreams can come true if you work hard enough for them.

We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.

The key to our lives as Christians today is how clearly we see by faith the resurrected Christ.

An answer we discover or obtain through the exercise of faith is typically retained for a lifetime. The most important learnings of life are caught-not taught.

That's exactly what made America so different, we don't have that colonial aspect of let's go conquer somebody else and make our nation bigger and that's because of the faith element.

God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.

The promises of God are His guarantees amid life's uncertainties. They're the basis of all our life of faith.

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.

Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.

What does the Christian faith say about Mary's childhood. We do not know much of Mary's childhood.

If you want someone to believe in you, believe in others.

That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom.

To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.

Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do.

Hope is a leg of a 3-legged stool with Faith and Charity.

They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.

Faith is not merely you holding on to God- it is God holding on to you

Perseverance is another word for faith!