Is faith resolute? Is faith taking a leap? Is faith dead? What is hope but faith churning? To me, I have never truly been able to get a good handle on what all faith means to me. But I know these thoughtful quotes I have assembled have helped me to get closer to understanding faith. I hope you enjoy pondering them and that they are helpful to you too.
The greatest act of faith some days is to simply get up and face another day.
The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence, whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence.
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.
Faith is not so much something we believe; faith is something we live.
Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.
Do not ask directions from the people around you. Ask directions from the person who called you.
The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.
A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God's work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.
Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.
It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.
The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
Everyone would like to have stronger faith. By themselves, the scriptures may not strengthen your faith, but being faithful to what they teach, does. In other words, faith cannot be separated from faithfulness.
Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
Never lose faith in yourself, and never lose hope; remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope.
Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.
He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.
All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
Longer Version:
All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. J.M.
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.
What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.
Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
Your soul must hold fast to Him, you must follow after Him in your thoughts, you must tread His ways by faith, not in outward show.
Disillusion comes only to the illusioned. One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith in.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.
The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.
What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
