99 Faith Quotes

1.  I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it. Edgar Allan Poe
2. A man of courage is also full of faith. Marcus Tullius Cicero
3. Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith. Rich Lowry
4. People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior. Joel Osteen
5. Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. Leonard Cohen
6. Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. Helen Keller
7. Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see. Martin Luther
8. Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people. Eleanor Roosevelt
9. Fear clogs faith liberates. Elbert Hubbard
10. For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. T. S. Eliot
11. Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Martin Luther King, Jr.
12. It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. Muhammad Ali
13. Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. Reinhold Niebuhr
14. The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience. Jeff Miller
15. I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains. Daniel Libeskind
16. Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences. Sherwood Eddy
17. You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt. Barack Obama
18. In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify but which he must accept upon faith and belief. Georg Simmel
19. I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order. Rick Moody
20. Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church. William Ames
21. God always takes the simplest way. Albert Einstein
22. Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. Thomas Aquinas
23. 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?' Jim Wallis
24. A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism. Irving Babbitt
25. Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' Max Planck
26. The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. John Foster Dulles
27. Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality. Phillip E. Johnson
28. It is something that is called MDS. It is a rare blood disorder that affects the bone marrow. I'm going to beat this. My doctors say it and my faith says it. Robin Roberts
29. Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. E. O. Wilson
30. It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country. Daniel Berrigan
31. Visible Faith is an expression of my Christian faith which must be visible to be real! I gave the name to the collection of musicians who worked with me on the record. Ken Hensley
32. Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish. Barbara Smith
33. You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time. Maurice Greene
34. It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner. Vince Lombardi
35. Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating. Laurel Lee
36. I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God. Smokey Robinson
37. After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was. Wes Bentley
38. I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual. E. M. Forster
39. That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
40. I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk. Jan Karon
41. Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. Lillian Smith
42. Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government, faith and family, and a strong national defense. These three legs do not merely represent a political coalition they are three necessary components of a strong and secure America. Frank Gaffney
43. I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today. Matthew Simpson
44. Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct. Paula Abdul
45. Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality. Sydney Carter
46. An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason. Jon Meacham
47. For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs. Rupert Sheldrake
48. Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. Blaise Pascal
49. But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith. Joseph Jarman
50. My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium. Dalai Lama
51. The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice. Clarence Darrow
52. Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel. William Gurnall
53. God continues to work miracles in my life. Willie Aames
54. Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies. Ray Lewis
55. We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last. Muhammad Ali
56. Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. Mason Cooley
57. The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life. Abraham Cahan
58. Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it. Mason Cooley
59. Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Khalil Gibran
60. To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. Christopher Hitchens
61. I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil. Michelle Shocked
62. Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top. Joseph Smith, Jr.
63. Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. Helen Rowland
64. It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs. Miguel de Unamuno
65. To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. Thomas Aquinas
66. Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! Thomas A. Edison
67. It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long. Steve Jobs
68. Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right. John Donne
69. Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. Henry Ward Beecher
70. The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark. Elihu Root
71. There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country. Bill Kristol
72. Reason is an action of the mind knowledge is a possession of the mind but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so. Michael Ramsey
73. Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. Saint Augustine
74. I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs. Wayne Newton
75. I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity. John Hawley
76. If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. John Paul Jones
77. Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job. Denise Mina
78. Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong. Ricky Martin
79. In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken. Youssou N'Dour
80. Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ. Martin Luther
81. You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined. Elizabeth Edwards
82. And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset. Pat Robertson
83. One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. Lucille Ball
84. I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths. Jimmy Carter
85. Faith is a higher faculty than reason. H. C. Bailey
86. Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned. Paul Tillich
87. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith. Reinhold Niebuhr
88. Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast. Edwin Louis Cole
89. The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. Richard Dawkins
90. It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. Blaise Pascal
91. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility. Ted Cruz
92. My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters. David Knopfler
93. To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. Albert Camus
94. The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists. William Jennings Bryan
95. I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again. Cat Stevens
96. I will always try to share my faith with any person who is willing to listen. When I feel a wall go up, we can talk about something else... and I will pray for you. Gloria Gaynor
97. For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men. Albert Claude
98. I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith. Mark Burnett
99. Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent. Sophia Loren