Encouraging and Thoughtful Quotes About Faith
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 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.
None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

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.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

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.
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.

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.
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.
He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
Longer Version/[Notes]:
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.

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 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.
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.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
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.
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
