Quotes About Faith

Always follow your heart and have faith in yourself and believe in the Lord and He will believe in you.

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.

Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.

The Spirit must therefore first take hold of us before we can live in Christ, and when he doth so, then we are enabled to exert that vital act of faith, whereby we receive Christ.

Faith's only function is to receive what grace offers.

How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?

When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.

I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.

People hand over the power to you withimmense faith. It's your job to ensure tough implementation of laws.

We don't have faith in reason; we use reason because, unlike revelation, it produces results and understanding. Even discussing why we should use reason employs reason!

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great defenders of Christendom. (The other was the pope.)

Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any contradiction is unthinkable and impossible.

It is not the part of faith to question, but to obey.

Faith is like pure eyes that enable us to see a pure and perfect world beyond the suffering world of samsara.

Faith doesn't deny a problems existence. It denies it a place of influence.

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.

Faith is only real when there is obedience, never without it, and faith only becomes faith in the act of obedience.