What Is Faith Quotes

Some of my fear and anxieties surrounding faith, I think, provides some good comedy for my act.

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb

My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it.

It's not who you are, but whose you are that counts. Because God is your heavenly Father, doors of opportunity will open for you.

When you stir up the passion, your faith will allow God to do amazing things. If you want to remain passionate, you cannot let what once was a miracle become ordinary.

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!

The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice.

We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me, may I say that it is against my religion to impose my religion.

You don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings... serendipitously.

Difficulties seldom defeat people; lack of faith in themselves usually does it.

The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith

It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone.

Faith furnishes prayer with wings, without which it cannot soar to Heaven.

To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.

A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind.

For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven's authority.

I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America.

Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.

Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.

He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.

Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.

We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.

I am at last reconciled to my God and have assurance of His pardon through faith in Christ, against which the very gates of hell cannot prevail. Fear hath been driven out by perfect love.

Faith is not a matter of trusting that events will always occur to our liking, but of trust that, whatever happens, our inner resources will be equal to the moment.

The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and for the sake of the Name.

Walking is easy ... but it requires faith to find the right path.

The important things to me are your faith, your family and your friends. If you have that, you have everything.

I have great faith in the people of Montana; they can't be bought.

How can we hope to retain our freedom through the generations if we fail to teach our young that our liberty springs from an abiding faith in our Creator?

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.

In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.

Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

There must be no coercion in matters of faith!

I don't think there are any churches that have "Thou shalt not believe in climate change" written in their actual statement of faith.

The Hoffman Process brings forth spiritual leadership in a person. It made my spirituality come alive. Through the Hoffman Process I actually brought my faith into my daily actions.

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

Casual obedience and lukewarm commitment weaken faith.

God has created several doors which open onto truth. He opens them to all those who knock on them with the hand of faith.