Quotes About Faith

so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.

Faith is making claims to victory before it is achieved.

The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!

To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.

Faith is the master, and reason the maid-servant.

I'm always very self-conscious and assume the way faith or religion might come up in my plays will seem very harsh to people of faith, or who are currently practicing.

Nothing but Christian faith gives to the furthest future the solidity and definiteness which it must have if it is to be a breakwater for us against the fluctuating sea of present cares and thoughts.

We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.

Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.

Faith is intellectual laziness.

The large majority of faith-based people are decent, fair-minded people. We should not characterize people of faith as the adversaries of GLBT equality.

The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

The industry should take comfort in knowing that WinStar is my main focus after my faith and family.

Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.

Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath.

I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.

Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.

Doubt is the first step towards knowledge, not faith.

By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it

Faith doesn't always instantly deliver you, but it always carries you through.

A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves

Every tomorrow has two handles we can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.

And were my faith so strong that it could move mountains, that is the mountain that I would make come to me.