Faith Quotes And Sayings
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Here is a collection of faith quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.
“I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.”
– Aleister Crowley
“Faith expects from God what is beyond all expectation.”
– Andrew Murray
“Every exhibition of the power of faith was the fruit of a special revelation from God. . . . Our spiritual power depends on God Himself speaking those promises to us.”
– Andrew Murray
“I believe in order that I may understand.”
– Anselm
“Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.”
– Arthur Miller
“Faith is not just something you have, it’s something you do.”
– Barack Obama
“Faith doesn’t mean that you don’t have doubts.”
– Barack Obama
“We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expression of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape. And instead of resolving these tensions or mediating these conflicts, our politics fans them, exploits them, and drives us further apart.”
– Barack Obama
“He has made me glad and no one can make me sad. He makes me shout and no one can make me doubt…”
– Billy Bray -
“Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a gift from God.”
– Blaise Pascal
“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.”
– Blaise Pascal
“I know whom I have believed.”
– Blaise Pascal
“No piece of evidence–or lack of evidence–can either support or refute faith. Unfortunately, few people realize that. Some people search for proof of spiritual things in the material world. That is foolish and doomed, because nothing material has any bearing on anything spiritual. Spiritual truths can only be learned via spiritual means.”
– Bob Lonsberry
“Faith is the hand with which we take from God. When we have met all the conditions and taken what God is offering us, we must believe that we have that thing.”
– C. Nuzum
“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods”
– C.S. Lewis
“You get faith by studying the Word. Study that Word until something in you “knows that you know” and that you do not just hope that you know.”
– Carrie Judd Montgomery
“Faith is putting all your eggs in God’s basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.”
– Carroll
“Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.”
– Carter Lindberg
“When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.”
– Charles Dickens
“I am speaking now of the kind of faith that ensures the blessing. Do not understand me as saying that there is nothing in prayer that is acceptable to God, or that even obtains the blessing sometimes, without this kind of faith (emphasis his).”
– Charles Finney
“Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.”
– Charles Wesley
“Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.”
– Coventry Patmore
“I now understand the need for faith–pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith–as a small life preserver in the world and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.”
– Dan Simmons
“We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.”
– Dean Koontz
“Only the believer is obedient and only the obedient believe.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Faith is not trustful acquiescence.”
– Ds Cairns
“A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.”
– Dwight L. Moody
“However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.”
– E. H. Chapin
“In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the frost and shadow of the grave. He feels no prophecy in the thrill of the human heart–in the incompleteness of nature. He believes merely in things tangible, and sees only in the daytime. He will not confess the authenticity of that paler light of faith which was meant to shine when the sunshine of reason falls short, and the firmament of mystery is over our heads.”
– E. H. Chapin
“Scepticism has never founded empires, established principles, or changed the world’s heart. The great doers of history have always been men of faith.”
– E. H. Chapin
“We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another’s doubt.”
– E. H. Chapin
“Faith talks in the language of God. Doubt talks in the language of man.”
– E.W. Kenyon
“Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won’t remove a wart at home this week.”
– Edgar Watson Howe
“Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.”
– Elton Trueblood
“As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.”
– Emmanuel Teney
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