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Quotes About Faith

Faith is to believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.
~ Lillian Smith
Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.
~ William Ralph Inge
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.
~ Paul Tillich
Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket then counting your blessings before they hatch.
~ Ramona C. Carroll
Faith is a kind of betting or speculation.
~ Samuel Butler
Without faith nothing is possible. With it nothing is impossible.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.
~ Samuel Butler
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety or by the handle of faith.
~ Anonymous
Father! Blessed word.
~ Unknown
Faith assuages guides restores.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
We do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if it is not granted to us and then we kneel and believe.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Faith is the sturdiest the most manly of the virtues. It lies behind our pluckiest... strivings. It is the virtue of the storm just as happiness is the virtue of the sunshine.
~ Ruth Benedict
There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith ... Can you reduce it to practice? If not have none of it.
~ Hosea Ballou
Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and more rarely sustained contemplation.
~ Aldous Huxley
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weather is that which is woven of conviction.
~ James Russell Lowell
The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is ... lack of faith.
~ Carl Jung
It is by faith that poetry as well as devotion soars above this dull earth that imagination breaks through its clouds breathes a purer air and lives in a softer light.
~ Henry Giles
Religious faith indeed relates to that which is above us but it must arise from that which is within us.
~ Josiah Royce
Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.
~ Carter Lindberg
A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith even so is he.
~ Hindu proverb
In Israel in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
~ David Ben-Gurion
For the believer there is no question for the non-believer there is no answer.
~ Anonymous
Life without faith in something is too narrow a space in which to live.
~ George Lancaster Spalding