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Faith Quotes
Faith Quotes IndexAtheism and Faith"To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny." "An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Beautiful Quotes on Faith"Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark." "Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark." "Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking." "Fear clogs; faith liberates." "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." "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." "Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives." "Faith is love taking the form of aspiration." "Faith isn’t the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It’s simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step." "Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see." "Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day." "Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities." "Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious." "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Benefits of Faith"Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Bible Verses"Faith is like a seed; plant it in your heart. God gives the harvest at the appointed time." "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." "The words of my mouth came from the faith in my heart; in the same way, our words are the outcome of our faith." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Blind Faith"Faith... must be enforced by reason.... When faith becomes blind it dies." "Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind." "You can’t stand effectively on ‘blind’ faith. You must have a ‘knowing’ faith, and that comes from believing wholeheartedly what the Word promises. You know God has spoken it and declared it to be so, and you know you can depend on that.” God’s Keys to Life." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Developing Faith"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be." "Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Faith and Belief"Believe you receive in the faith realm, and you shall have it in the natural realm." "Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it’s true." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Faith and Bible"The Bible is not supposed to make sense, it is supposed to make faith." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Faith and Courage"Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive." "A man of courage is also full of faith." "Faith is reason grown courageous." "It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Faith and Doubt"You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt." "There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds." "Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith." "Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death." "Faith which does not doubt is dead faith." "Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other." "Feed your faith and starve your doubts." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Faith and Fear"Fear tolerated is faith contaminated." "Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death." "Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer." "Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there." "To me faith means not worrying." "Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith." "Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith." "The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety." "Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow." "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." "If you have worry, you don’t have faith, and if you have faith, you don’t have worry." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Faith and God"Weave in faith and God will find the thread." "Have faith in God; God has faith in you." Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Faith and Prayer"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them." "There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer." "When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith." "I have joyfully dedicated my whole life to the object of exemplifying how much may be accomplished by prayer and faith." "Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Faith and Reason"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe." "Faith is not contrary to reason." "My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason." "Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right." "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." "Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Faith and Religion"I hold that religion and faith are two different things." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Faith and Trust"Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Faith Defined"Faith is the spark that ignites the impossible and causes it to become possible. When a person’s faith is activated, it sets in motion supernatural power that enables that person to do what he normally would never be able to do!" "Faith is spiritualized imagination." "Faith is a passionate intuition." "Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is." "Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand." "Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof." Khalil Gibran "Faith is a state of openness or trust." "Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time." "Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite." "Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not." "Faith is believing that God is going to take you places before you even get there." "Faith isn’t faith until it’s all you’re holding on to." "Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Faith in Humanity"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." "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." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Faith in Self"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course." "Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it." "Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy." "One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself." "Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Faith’s Companions"With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve." "Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Fruit of Faith"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." "Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future." "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." "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." "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." "Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe." "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." "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history." "Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Good Advice"Never dig up in unbelief what you have sown in faith." "Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest." "Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists." "If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end." "Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested." "I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place." "You just have to have a simple faith." "I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it." "Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Humorous"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Importance of Faith"A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing." "The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty." "Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light." "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." "It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living." "If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory." 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"Faith is like radar that sees through the fog." "At the point where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith." "Faith makes things possible, not easy." "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." "Faith can move mountains, but don't be surprised if God hands you a shovel." "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." "Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation." "Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into." "The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak." "The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness." "Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves." "Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others." "To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder." "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?" "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?" "If you desire faith, then you have faith enough." "As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey." "Faith is caught rather than taught." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Inspirational"Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch." "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." "Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur." "Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy." "If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery." "Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Keeping the Faith"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith." "Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Lack of Faith"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." "A faith of convenience is a hollow faith." "The faith that stands on authority is not faith." "There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self." "The saddest thing that befalls a soul Is when it loses faith in God and woman." "When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead." John Greenleaf Whittier "We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually it’s just a slow leak." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Leap of Faith"When you get to the end of all the light you know and it’s time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly." "Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together." "Fear looks; faith jumps. Faith never fails to obtain its object. If I leave you as I found you, I am not God’s channel. I am not here to entertain you, but to get you to the place where you can laugh at the impossible." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Profound"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't." "To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." "Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God." "Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy." "To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float." "The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God." "My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence." "A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul." "Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." "Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith." "Faith is like electricity. You can’t see it, but you can see the light." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Testing of Faith"To learn strong faith is to endure great trials. I have learned my faith by standing firm amid severe testings." "Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials." "It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner." Return to Index of Faith Quotes Return to Life Quotes - from Faith Quotes
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