Faith Quotes
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Some people are weak in their faith and testimonies but are not even aware of how precarious their situation is. Many of them likely would be offended at the suggestion.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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THE MIRACLE EQUATION: Unwavering Faith + Extraordinary Effort = Miracles. When you maintain unwavering faith in your dreams and give extraordinary effort toward your goals, that is how you create miracles in your life.
Hal Elrod
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This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.
William Shakespeare
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For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.
Emily Dickinson
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How is it, that for many of us, being a good Christian is nothing more than being a good person? The entire focus of our faith has been the elimination of sin, which is important but inadequate; rather than the unleashing of a unique, original, extraordinary, wonderfully untamed, faith.
Erwin McManus
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It is not enough for us to know what is right and to believe it is good. We must be willing to stand up and be counted. When we have the courage and faith to live up to the best we know, we fulfill the purpose for which we came to this earth, and we provide an incentive for others to do the same.
Dean L. Larsen
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When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it.
Katherine Dunham
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It is faith that looks up at the creator God and knows him to be the God of love. And it is faith that looks out at the world with the longing to bring that love to bear in healing reconciliation, and hope.
N. T. Wright
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As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation - the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ.
Lewis B. Smedes
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I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.
John Hawley
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You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.
Saint Augustine
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Every generation has an obligation to leave its children in a better position than it inherited. Our representatives in Washington are breaking faith with that covenant. America must reduce its federal spending and accumulation of debt for the sake of generations to come.
David Malpass
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The way to the organic, active peace of brotherhood leads through the hearts of peacemakers who will knit together, with patience and self-sacrifice, the shorn and tangled fibers of human aspirations, faith, and hopes, who will transcend the fears and dangers of an adventure of trust. The road to unity is the road of repentance.
H. Richard Niebuhr
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I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.
James McGreevey
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God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.
Mother Teresa
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Duplicity in matters of religion is not confined to Pakistan, but it hurts the most in societies where debate on religion is asphyxiated and preachers of hate have become keepers of faith.
Asma Jahangir
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Faith is the most powerful of all forces operating in humanity and when you have it in depth nothing can get you down.
Norman Vincent Peale
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The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler.
William Butler Yeats
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Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.
William Whewell
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A great sense of morality was instilled in me through my upbringing in the Catholic faith - particularly because my father is a moral theologian. And morality is something I believe exists separate from faith, as an intrinsic human quality that one should aspire to understand and participate in.
David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
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Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.
Edward John Carnell