Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

faith

All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book. 3 quotes from David Livingstone

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. 16 quotes from Michelangelo

God always takes the simplest way. 105 more wisdom & wit from Albert Einstein

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. 23 more quotes from Vincent Van Gogh

I don't have to have faith, I have experience. 18 other wisdom & wit from Joseph Campbell

I live and love in God's peculiar light. 16 other quotes from Michelangelo

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough. 9 quotes from Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come. 9 sayings from Lawrence Welk

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life. 4 quotes from Jean Ingelow

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. 16 other quotes from Erich Fromm

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. 23 other views from Vincent Van Gogh

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. 5 more views from Augustus Hare

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith. 2 views from Michael Polanyi

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants. 4 quotes from Charles Henry Parkhurst

Faith is a passionate intuition. 21 more thoughts from William Wordsworth

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. 11 quotes from William Ellery Channing

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing. 9 quotes from Robert Collier

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. 81 quotes from William Shakespeare

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. 12 wisdom & wit from Thornton Wilder

I've lost my faith in science. 21 other views from Bette Davis

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety. 42 sayings from Josh Billings

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. 38 sayings from William Hazlitt

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry. 5 thoughts from Oliver Cromwell

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. 81 quotes from William Shakespeare

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice. 14 views from Clarence Darrow

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God. 4 more quotes from David Brainerd

Faith is the heroism of the intellect. 4 views from Charles Henry Parkhurst

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests. 23 quotes from Niccolo Machiavelli

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. 6 other quotes from Karl Barth

Faith is never identical with piety. 6 sayings from Karl Barth

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. 35 other quotes from Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. 22 more quotes from Soren Kierkegaard

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor. 6 quotes from Francis Quarles

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. 43 other thoughts from Alexander Pope

God enters by a private door into every individual. 135 thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. 10 thoughts from Wilson Mizner

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression. 23 more wisdom & wit from E. W. Howe

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other. 10 views from Novalis

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character. 22 other quotes from Robert Browning

Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual. 135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them. 22 views from James Dyson

The faith that stands on authority is not faith. 135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. 33 quotes from Thomas Huxley

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. 24 wisdom & wit from Joseph Addison

It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death. 3 quotes from Jacqueline Cochran

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear? 3 views from Julia Ward Howe

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist. 12 other wisdom & wit from Marquis de Sade

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith. 3 other quotes from Anna Letitia Barbauld

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. 58 more wisdom & wit from Henry Ward Beecher

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them. 57 sayings from Blaise Pascal

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. 57 more views from Blaise Pascal

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. 57 views from Blaise Pascal

Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. 57 quotes from Blaise Pascal

Faith is spiritualized imagination. 58 sayings from Henry Ward Beecher

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. 31 other sayings from Helen Keller

Fear clogs faith liberates. 59 views from Elbert Hubbard

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place. 7 quotes from Harriet Beecher Stowe

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. 57 quotes from Blaise Pascal

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. 57 views from Blaise Pascal

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. 15 sayings from Reinhold Niebuhr

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death. 59 other wisdom & wit from Elbert Hubbard

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason. 15 quotes from Norman Cousins

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful. 12 more wisdom & wit from Marquis de Sade

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith. 15 thoughts from Reinhold Niebuhr

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. 31 sayings from Helen Keller

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values. 10 wisdom & wit from William Ralph Inge

Faith is the black person's federal reserve system. 5 more views from Hattie McDaniel

I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today. 4 other sayings from Matthew Simpson

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man. 4 other thoughts from Matthew Simpson

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character. 4 quotes from Matthew Simpson

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up. 3 more sayings from George A. Smith

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. 4 more sayings from Matthew Simpson

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. 31 wisdom & wit from Eric Hoffer

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. 5 quotes from Oswald Chambers

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. 3 sayings from Mary McLeod Bethune

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. 117 more sayings from Henry David Thoreau

Faith never makes a confession. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow. 5 quotes from Aphra Behn

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal. 6 quotes from Emily Bronte

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. 3 wisdom & wit from John Paul Jones

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church? 7 more wisdom & wit from John Calvin

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. 19 other quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith. 31 more wisdom & wit from Eric Hoffer

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe. 7 more quotes from Claude Bernard

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. 31 sayings from Eric Hoffer

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. 10 views from Hermann Hesse

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. 31 sayings from Eric Hoffer

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. 3 quotes from Mary McLeod Bethune

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. 19 quotes from E. B. White

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld. 3 wisdom & wit from Dorothy Thompson

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life. 6 views from Abraham Cahan

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself. 5 quotes from Irving Babbitt

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. 18 thoughts from Mother Teresa

Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith. 11 quotes from Paul Tillich

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. 2 quotes from Hans Urs von Balthasar

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite. 11 wisdom & wit from Paul Tillich

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned. 11 views from Paul Tillich

Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. 13 other sayings from Herman Melville

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it. 4 wisdom & wit from Stanley Baldwin

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. 4 more quotes from Felix Adler

In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come. 2 wisdom & wit from Walter Lang

In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread. 2 more sayings from Kenneth Scott Latourette

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. 24 other thoughts from Henri Frederic Amiel

As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts. 6 other quotes from Francis Parker Yockey

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. 9 more views from Elizabeth I

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. 24 wisdom & wit from Henri Frederic Amiel

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. 60 sayings from H. L. Mencken

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. 12 more views from Miguel de Unamuno

For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. 23 quotes from T. S. Eliot

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs. 12 sayings from Miguel de Unamuno

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. 12 other quotes from Miguel de Unamuno

Society lives by faith, and develops by science. 24 sayings from Henri Frederic Amiel

I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support. 4 quotes from Patsy Cline

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism. 6 quotes from Francis Parker Yockey

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. 103 views from Friedrich Nietzsche

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. 100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts. 100 views from Mahatma Gandhi

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac. 100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them. 13 other thoughts from Mahalia Jackson

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. 100 more sayings from Mahatma Gandhi

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies. 100 other quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Faith: not wanting to know what is true. 103 other wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. 100 thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. 4 quotes from Aleister Crowley

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm. 100 other quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. 100 sayings from Mahatma Gandhi

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. 4 quotes from Franz Liszt

Non-violence is the article of faith. 100 more wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man. 100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. 100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God. 100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. 33 other quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains. 15 more views from William Penn

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life. 3 thoughts from Jonathan Edwards

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. 24 other views from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever. 100 more wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. 33 more quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

To me faith means not worrying. 9 more quotes from John Dewey

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience. 100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. 100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. 8 more thoughts from Thomas Browne

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy. 8 sayings from Thomas Browne

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired. 32 other thoughts from Martin Luther

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. 11 thoughts from Bruce Lee

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ. 32 views from Martin Luther

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. 78 quotes from Voltaire

Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door. 3 other quotes from George Edward Moore

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. 32 sayings from Martin Luther

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see. 32 quotes from Martin Luther

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding. 32 more thoughts from Martin Luther

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged. 10 more views from Louisa May Alcott

I gave in, and admitted that God was God. 25 other sayings from C. S. Lewis

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion. 14 more thoughts from Muhammad Iqbal

Pray, and let God worry. 32 wisdom & wit from Martin Luther

Reason is the enemy of faith. 32 wisdom & wit from Martin Luther

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest. 3 quotes from Ellen G. White

The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine. 3 more sayings from Ellen G. White

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith. 6 sayings from Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. 52 more sayings from Albert Camus

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom. 30 more sayings from Gustave Flaubert

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine. 46 quotes from George Santayana

Duty cannot exist without faith. 75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it. 68 quotes from Samuel Butler

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. 3 more views from Lillian Smith

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted. 5 sayings from Albert Pike

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies. 5 quotes from George Whitefield

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith. 14 other views from Heinrich Heine

Is a faith without action a sincere faith? 5 more views from Jean Racine

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. 58 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Carlyle

Obedience is the fruit of faith. 4 quotes from Christina Rossetti

The principle part of faith is patience. 12 quotes from George MacDonald

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman. 6 other quotes from Alexander Smith

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. 68 quotes from Samuel Butler

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead. 7 other thoughts from John Greenleaf Whittier

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve. 5 quotes from Muhammad Ali Jinnah

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. 68 more quotes from Samuel Butler

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. 11 more sayings from Douglas MacArthur

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. 16 thoughts from Alan Watts

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. 16 views from Alan Watts

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. 56 more quotes from Khalil Gibran

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. 20 other thoughts from Thomas Aquinas

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. 56 more views from Khalil Gibran

Faith is a state of openness or trust. 16 other wisdom & wit from Alan Watts

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. 19 other quotes from Anton Chekhov

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. 56 other quotes from Khalil Gibran

Faith is not contrary to reason. 3 other wisdom & wit from Sherwood Eddy

Faith is reason grown courageous. 3 other quotes from Sherwood Eddy

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. 41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us. 2 wisdom & wit from William Ames

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. 40 other thoughts from William James

Faith without works is like a bird without wings though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven. 3 views from Francis Beaumont

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. 26 more quotes from E. M. Forster

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. 5 quotes from J. R. R. Tolkien

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New. 2 thoughts from Benjamin Whichcote

He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith. 21 other wisdom & wit from Abu Bakr

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church. 20 thoughts from Thomas Aquinas

I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it. 19 wisdom & wit from Edgar Allan Poe

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual. 26 sayings from E. M. Forster

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself. 14 quotes from Loretta Young

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. 96 other wisdom & wit from Benjamin Franklin

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it. 12 quotes from Thomas a Kempis

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. 23 views from Helen Rowland

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. 40 more quotes from William James

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force. 24 other thoughts from Franklin D. Roosevelt

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right. 10 more quotes from John Donne

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. 41 sayings from Martin Luther King, Jr.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. 96 sayings from Benjamin Franklin

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. 40 wisdom & wit from William James

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility. 21 quotes from Abu Bakr

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. 96 sayings from Benjamin Franklin

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. 20 quotes from Thomas Aquinas

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing. 8 quotes from Ernest Holmes

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith and the universe is built on faith. 8 more quotes from Ernest Holmes

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine. 10 sayings from Tertullian

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences. 3 quotes from Sherwood Eddy

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery. 4 other views from William Gurnall

Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel. 4 sayings from William Gurnall

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith. 2 thoughts from Herbert Croly

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow. 3 other sayings from Romain Rolland

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. 73 wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo

A library implies an act of faith. 73 sayings from Victor Hugo

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray. 16 views from Havelock Ellis

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. 25 sayings from Simone Weil

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. 31 quotes from Thomas Paine

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses,' we merely cease to shape our lives by it. 7 thoughts from Georges Bernanos

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy. 8 sayings from Dwight L. Moody

God never made a promise that was too good to be true. 8 wisdom & wit from Dwight L. Moody

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. 24 more quotes from Ayn Rand

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. 32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first. 5 sayings from Thomas More

I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. 22 thoughts from Henry Adams

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? 6 quotes from Charles Lindbergh

Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. 47 quotes from Abraham Lincoln

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. 22 quotes from Henry Adams

Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive. 5 more quotes from Edna St. Vincent Millay

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. 30 quotes from George Washington

Only faith is sufficient. 2 quotes from Robert Ley

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. 4 quotes from Robert Burton

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself. 3 more quotes from David Sarnoff