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Quotes About Faith

For a person to be truly discipled and growing in their faith, they need more than one person discipling them.
~ Francis Chan
It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.
~ Richard Brautigan
Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.
~ Shane Claiborne
Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning.
~ Nathalie Sarraute
Indifference to one's own faith is no proof of tolerance. Loyalty to one's own is part of a larger loyalty to faith generally.
~ Abba Hillel Silver
Christ did not come to straighten out the natural, but to "CROSS" it out.
~ L. E. Maxwell
It's important to note that Jesus and Christ are two different faith affirmations. Hardly any Christians have been taught that - they think "Christ" is Jesus's last name.
~ Richard Rohr
The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
~ James Anthony Froude
No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it.
~ Thomas Hartwell Horne
Faith is the profound knowing that comes before reality confirms it.
~ Croft M. Pentz
Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.
~ Alexander Hamilton
And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
~ Pat Robertson
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
~ Gustave Flaubert
I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.
~ Mark Burnett
Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.
~ Jerry B. Jenkins
Faith is not jumping to conclusions. It is concluding to jump.
~ W. T. Purkiser
There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.
~ Lucy Powell
The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.
~ Norbert Wiener
Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.
~ Julianna Baggott
Casual obedience and lukewarm commitment weaken faith.
~ Kevin W. Pearson
Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
~ Soren Kierkegaard
We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified?
~ Richard Watson Gilder
Faith lives in honest doubt.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone, though one is justified by faith alone, the faith which justifies is never in fact alone.
~ N. T. Wright