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Quotes About Faith

Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.
~ Hugh Reginald Haweis
In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.
~ Huston Smith
My ceiling's broken, my car's got a puncture and we've just lost two matches. But I've got my health and I'll ask the big man upstairs why he didn't give us a point.
~ Ian Holloway
A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
~ Idries Shah
Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
~ Ignatius of Antioch
« Barabas pulled Christopher out of the cage. The man stared up at him. "I died, didn't I? Are you an angel?" "Sure," Barabas said. "Follow me to the Heavenly Shower »
~ Ilona Andrews
And men my prophet wail deride!
~ Ilona Andrews
Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.
~ Isaac Watts
It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard.
~ Israel Shenker
For the man who thought he was Man there is no salvation.
~ Italo Calvino
Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.
~ J. C. Ryle
Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.
~ J. I. Packer
Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me. It restored my faith when I was a boy, tended me as a teenager, and when I was a young man the bar embraced me.
~ J. R. Moehringer
I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.
~ Jacques Ellul
Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.
~ James Anthony Froude
The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true.
~ James Branch Cabell
It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it.
~ James Freeman Clarke
A critic is a man who expects miracles.
~ James Gibbons
What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.
~ James Madison
The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.
~ James McBride
The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
~ James Russell Lowell
He's true to God who's true to man.
~ James Russell Lowell
A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."
~ Jane Addams
A man who never trusts himself never trusts anyone.
~ Jean Francois Paul de Gondi