Faith and Belief Quotes

"We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything."

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

"We come to love those we serve. If we choose to begin to serve the Master out of even a glimmer of faith, we will begin to know Him. We will come to know His purposes for the people we serve for Him. Even when they do not accept our offer to serve them, we will feel His appreciation if we persist."

"I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact."

"Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are turning their backs on religion. They are walking away from the faith of their parents, and most of this is because religion has failed them."

"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?"

"I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual."

"To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny."

"The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great and mighty deliverance, is not my work but is my faith in Him. It is not the works of righteousness which I have done, but according to His grace. I am a product of His grace."

"Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well."

"I am totally convinced the Christian faith is the most coherent worldview around."

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

"There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility."

"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."

"What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?"

"Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other."

"When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying."

"The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin."

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

"A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you can find strength in the balm of Christ. It will help you meet the heartaches and challenges with faith and serenity."

"My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer."

"To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning."

"I asked long ago,'What must I do to be saved?' The Scripture answered, 'Keep the commandments, believe, hope, love.' I was early warned against laying, as the Papists do, too much stress on outward works, or on a faith without works, which as it does not include, so it will never lead to true hope or charity."

"I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith."

"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."

"Faith gave me the belief that there was somebody looking out for me, that there was a hopeful future on the other side of all the things I was going through."

"Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'"

"Themes of redemption, temptation, and faith don't necessarily apply directly to religion. A lot of people find faith in their lives outside of God and still deal with notions of temptation and redemption that aren't religious."

"We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith."

"Human misery is too great for men to do without faith."

"An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God."

"Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness."

"No one has proof that I know of, that a higher power exists, yet a major portion of the world believes in it and relies on it in faith in trust, in what that is. Where is the science in that? And yet you have incredible belief in that."

"I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith."

"You have to have faith in people."

"I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief."

"If you look at 'The Have and the Have Nots,' I didn't want to write a show where everyone is great and wonderful and perfect. I wanted to write it so that you're not really sure who the haves are. You look at Hanna, and you see that she doesn't have much, but she has great faith."

"In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order."

"Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths."

"No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!"

"The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society."

"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."

"Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing."

"If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith."

"Confound not faith and feeling together. They are distinct. Faith is ours to exercise. Believe, believe. Let your faith take hold of the blessing, and it is yours by faith. Your feelings have nothing to do with this faith."

"Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them."

"We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely."

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

"Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition."

"I love my ink. They all have a meaning. I'm very strong in my faith, so I wanted to have some religious images. I've got Pieta, a Michelangelo sculpture of Mary holding Jesus after he came off the cross, on my shoulder. A sacred heart on my arm. Musical notes because I love music. The compass on my chest is there because church is my compass."