Quotes about faith

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

— Saint Thomas Acquinas

Faith is a continuation of reason.

— William Adams

In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.

— Alexander The Great

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

— W. H. Auden

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

— St. Augustine

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

— Henry Christopher Bailey

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

— Henry Christopher Bailey

You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

— Jim Bakker

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

— Bruce Barton

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.

— Francis Beaumont

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

— Ruth Benedict

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

— Georges Bernanos

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

— St. Bernard

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

— Bible

All things are possible to him who believes. [Mark 9:23]

— Bible

According to your faith; be it done unto you.

— Bible

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. [Hebrews 11:6]

— Bible

If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. [Mark 9:23]

— Bible

For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

— Bible

Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. [Peter 3:15]

— Bible

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20]

— Bible

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

— Bible

Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shall find it after many days.

— Bible

Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Josh Billings

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

— Emily Bronte

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.

— Sir Thomas Browne

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

— Pearl S. Buck

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

— Samuel Butler

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

— Samuel Butler

There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

— Eric Butterworth

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

— Lord Byron

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

— Thomas Carlyle

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

— Oswald Chambers

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

— William Ellery Channing

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

— James Freeman Clarke

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

— Mason Cooley

Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

— Donald Curtis

What we wish, that we readily believe.

— Demosthenes

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

— Annie Dillard

As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

— John Donne

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

— John Donne

Faith is not contrary to reason

— Sherwood Eddy

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.

— Tryon Edwards

To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

— Albert Einstein

Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

— William M. Evarts

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

— Edward M. Forster

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

— Viktor E. Frankl

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

— Benjamin Franklin

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

— Benjamin Franklin

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

— Erich Fromm

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is the article of faith.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

— Kahlil Gibran

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

— George W. Goethals

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

— Graham Greene

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

— George Gurdjieff

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

— John Haggai

A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

— Bob Harrington

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

— William Hazlitt

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

— Cullen Hightower

The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

— Vaclav Hlavaty

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

— Ralph Hodgson

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

— Eric Hoffer

God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

— Raymond Holliwell

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

— Elbert Hubbard

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

— William James

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

— William James

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

— William James

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

— Rufus M. Jones

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

— James Joyce

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

— Søren Kierkegaard

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble.

— Rudyard Kipling

Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

— C. S. Lewis

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.

— Abraham Lincoln

Faith is the refusal to panic.

— David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

— Vince Lombardi

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

— Sophia Loren

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

— James Russell Lowell

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

— Sir John Lubbock

At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

— Max L. Lucado

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

— Martin Luther

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

— Martin Luther

Reason is the enemy of faith.

— Martin Luther

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.

— Martin Luther

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

— Martin Luther

The principal part of faith is patience.

— George Macdonald

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

— Edwin Markham

Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

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

— Herman Melville