Quotes About Belief

Faith is verification by the heart confession by the tongue action by the limbs.

Faith is a certitude without proofs ... a sentiment for it is a hope it is an instinct for it precedes all outward instruction.

Faith is obedience nothing else.

Faith is building on what you know is here so you can reach what you know is there.

Faith is a gift of God which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menaces of torture.

Faith is primarily a process of identification the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal.

Faith implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater.

The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.

Faith is the little night-light that burns in a sick-room as long as it is there the obscurity is not complete we turn towards it and await the daylight.

Faith is an act of self-consecration in which the will the intellect and the affections all have their place.

Faith is courage it is creative while despair is always destructive.

Faith is to believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.

Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.

Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket then counting your blessings before they hatch.

Faith is a kind of betting or speculation.

Without faith nothing is possible. With it nothing is impossible.

You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.

Faith assuages guides restores.

We do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if it is not granted to us and then we kneel and believe.

There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith ... Can you reduce it to practice? If not have none of it.

Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.

Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and more rarely sustained contemplation.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weather is that which is woven of conviction.