Quotes About Faith

Without faith to act as a governor, the human mind is a runaway worry generator, a dynamo of negative expectations.

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.

The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite.

I look for a sign. Where to go next. you never know when you'll get one. Even the most faithless among us are waiting to be proven wrong.

The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.

I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

FAITH untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials.

Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so that they don't have to.

I'm speaking of the ability of people of faith to freely express their beliefs in the public square.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Training is principally an act of faith.

Being a Christian is more like having your soul possessed by a spirit than having your mind clothed with new beliefs... It is like being haunted by the Holy Ghost.

Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.

Fear is faith in reverse gear.

When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.