Quotes on Faith

Life Quotes on Faith

Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer. ~Author Unknown

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog. ~Corrie Ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord
Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right. ~John Donne

Faith is reason grown courageous. ~Sherwood Eddy
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ~Khalil Gibran

Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there. ~Author Unknown

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn’t even eat hash with safety. ~Josh Billings, His Complete Works, 1888 Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. ~E.M. Forster

Faith is spiritualized imagination. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ~J.R.R. Tolkien

Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. ~David S. Muzzey

Faith is a passionate intuition. ~William Wordsworth
To me faith means not worrying. ~John Dewey

At the point where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. ~Robert Brault

Faith is putting all your eggs in God’s basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. ~Ramona C. Carroll

Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys. ~Madeleine L’Engle

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. ~Author Unknown Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well — even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. ~B.C. Forbes

A faith of convenience is a hollow faith. ~Father Mulcahy, M*A*S*H, “A Holy Mess,” 1982

Faith makes things possible, not easy. ~Author Unknown

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith. ~Robert Brault

What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt. ~Robert Brault

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. ~Victor Hugo

Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us. ~W. Ralph Ward
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. ~Emmanuel

Faith is the quiet cousin of courage. ~Judith Hanson Lasater

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t. ~Blaise Pascal

To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life. ~Robert Brault
There must be a tomorrow, because my life overflows today. ~Lois Chartrand

Faith… must be enforced by reason…. When faith becomes blind it dies. ~Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith. ~Margot Asquith

If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list. ~Robert Brault

Faith and doubt both are needed — not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. ~Lillian Smith

Sunbeams out of the clouds Faith out of all my doubt. ~Terri Guillemets

Faith is Hope with a holier name, hope that knows neither deceit nor death. Ah, how wisely do you speak of the philosophy of belief! It is, indeed, the telescope through which the stars grow large upon our gaze. ~Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer

Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. ~Carter Lindberg
Weave in faith and God will find the thread. ~Author Unknown

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them. ~Mahalia Jackson

Faith is not about everything turning out okay, faith is about being okay no matter how things turn out. ~Author Unknown

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate. ~Michael Eric Dyson

Your heart is a sun—
Joy its stars,
Faith a moon, shining in your darkness….
~Terri Guillemets

Oh, brethren, be great believers! Little faith will bring your souls to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to you. ~C.H. Spurgeon

Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is. ~Colette Baron-Reid

Faith can move mountains, but don’t be surprised if God hands you a shovel. ~Author Unknown
Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists. ~Robert Brault

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
A palace of doubt is senseless,
The chambers have no light.
~Terri Guillemets

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains…. But it can put mountains where there are none. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1879

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. ~George Seaton

For if my faith in faith be strong,
No doubt can enter in
My mind to make me ill and sad,
And let old Satan win!
~Gertrude T. Buckingham, “Have Faith in Faith”

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future. ~Robert Collyer

Out of the darkness, out of the night,
May I find joy and all that is right:
Open my eyes, so I’ll see the light
That comes when we have spiritual sight.
~Gertrude Tooley Buckingham, “Infinite Spirit, Abide With Me” (1940s)

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. ~Author Unknown

As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith. ~Robert Brault

Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. ~George Lancaster Spalding