Faith Quotes
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Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.
John Calvin
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Clearly, a large number of African-Americans don't have faith that the laws are being executed fairly in Ferguson, and that's a problem... We need to ensure Africans-Americans feel confident in the rule of law.
Claire McCaskill
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We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of their country.
Margaret Mead
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The pain of loneliness is one way in which he wants to get our attention. We may be earnestly desiring to be obedient and holy. But we may be missing the fact that it is here, where we happen to be at this moment and not in another place or another time, that we may learn to love Him - here where it seems He is not at work, where He seems obscure or frightening, where He is not doing what we expected Him to do, where He is most absent. Here and nowhere else is the appointed place. If faith does not got to work here, it will not work at all.
Elisabeth Elliot
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First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn't believe and doesn't seek the faith. Premise that - and it's the fundamental thing - the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn't believe in God lies in obeying one's conscience.
Pope Francis
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Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.
Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
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Faith is the fullness to realize that each moment of our lives is a gift; that the whole of our lives is a spiritual journey, whether in our darkest hours or brightest joys.
Bo Lozoff
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Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose.
Bob Proctor
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I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington . . . I'm asking you to believe in yours." Keeping faith with those who serve must always be a core American value and a cornerstone of American patriotism. Because America's commitment to its servicemen and women begins at enlistment, and it must never end.
Barack Obama
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I don't place much faith in my intuitions, except as a starting place for designing experiments.
Elizabeth Spelke
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What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it?
Richard Scott Bakker
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Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift.
Martin Luther
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Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity.
Rita Mae Brown
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I never was deeply interested in any object; I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything, but it came at some time - no matter how distant, in some way, in some shape, probably the last I should have devised, it came. And yet, I have always had so little faith. God forgive me.
Adoniram Judson
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The only saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life or death.
Martin Luther
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In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.
Pope Francis
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Every decade or so, Hollywood has an epiphany. It turns out faith-based audiences enjoy going to the movies, too.
David Harsanyi
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If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?
C. S. Lewis
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Jesus Christ said, 'I pray your faith will not fail.' This means your faith will be tested. What is testing your faith right now?
T. B. Joshua
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Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.
Alice Fulton
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Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.
John Rhys-Davies
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The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.
Francis Parker Yockey
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Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.
Corrie Ten Boom