Top 100 Act Of Faith Quotes
#1. It's time that Islam should be redefined by the world based upon, the goodness of all the peace-loving Muslims, instead of the theoretical teachings of some books, be it Quran or the Hadith.
Abhijit Naskar
#2. Nothing was anything until someone defined it. Nothing was inevitable. Nothing was inviolate. Everything existed, perhaps, by the act of faith, and we were always in the midst of creating our world, complete with the trappings of tradition that was nothing more than an invention like all the rest.
Anne Rice
#3. Rightly understood the New Year festival is an act of faith. It is easier for the year to change than to change ourselves. But we believe that somehow, magically, one will lead to the other.
R. Joseph Hoffmann
#5. Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.
Charles Colson
#6. The natural pattern of current astronomy is provided by the cryptic unity of nature itself (belief in which is the chief act of faith of the scientist).
Nigel Calder
#7. My hope and my prayer for people would be to find and gather themselves such that their self-understanding, their willingness to act in the face of fear, [imbibes and imbues them] with enough faith [that] is bigger than their fear.
Rod Stryker
#8. To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.
Edouard Vuillard
#9. I think reading a translation is an act of faith.
Donna Leon
#10. Do yourself a favor and forgive anyone that has anything against you. Do it as an act of faith and trust God to change and heal your emotions. Pray for your enemies and never say another unkind thing about them. It is the only way you can move past the pain and begin to heal.
Joyce Meyer
#11. Enter faith, and a whole new factor enters the equation. Words like "impossible" seem out of place. Despair and cynicism feel like insults to God. Hope grows, and love, and therefore motivation to care, to give, to act, to try, to dream, to risk.
Brian D. McLaren
#13. Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.
Alberto Manguel
#14. We were born alone, and we will die alone. But while we are on this planet, we must accept and glorify our act of faith through other people.
Paulo Coelho
#15. When you have got the greatest mountain of hardship that you've ever faced to deal with, you also have the greatest opportunity to act on a stronger faith than you've ever acted on before.
Calvin W. Allison
#16. I was frightened even by God. I could not believe in His love, only in His punishment. Faith. That, I felt, was the act of facing the tribunal of justice with one's head bowed to receive the scourge of God. I could believe in hell, but it was impossible for me to believe in the existence of heaven.
Osamu Dazai
#17. God will save whomever He chooses to save. The Christian should proselytize not because he thinks he can change everybody; he should proselytize because the Gospel being shared is the ultimate act of love: because he thinks he can love everybody.
Criss Jami
#18. Should we act on our unseen fears before the virtue of human kindness? Who's given us more, the Light's faith or that stranger? And if you choose to reject generosity, then what standing do we have left in this world, or in the hereafter, for that matter?
Janny Wurts
#19. To the extent that in one's act of faith one participates in the truth through reason and heart, faith already implies a particular level of knowledge and of certainty.
Osman Bakar
#20. The priest's work, the priest's service, was understoon as an act of worship. Theis was Gods desire at Sinai - thst everybody would understand their roles as priests. Thst everybody would worship God by serving each other.
Rob Bell
#21. The greatest act of faith some days is to simply get up and face another day.
Amy Gatliff
#23. The act of living one's own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to ... make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny.
Paulo Coelho
#25. Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.
Brennan Manning
#26. Brother, the act of faith, by which you accept and enter this life in the New Covenant, is not commonly an act of power, but often of weakness and fear and much trembling.
Andrew Murray
#27. Writing ... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are.
Margaret Atwood
#28. My Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not turn from it. I think faith and guidance can help fortify a young woman's sense of self, a young man's sense of responsibility, and a sense of reverence all young people for the act of sexual intimacy.
Barack Obama
#29. Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things or asking Him for good things. Maybe it's just the act of praying and feeling that there's someone up there listening that makes us feel better and less helpless.
Sarah Darer Littman
#30. Your faith begins to move, to act, when the power of God supernaturally empties you of doubt and fills you with a knowing. You come into a state of knowing that you know that you know. In that instant you cannot doubt.
Oral Roberts
#31. Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Erich Fromm
#33. I strongly oppose the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. We must stand for the right of every American to practice their faith according to the dictates of their conscience, whether it be in the public square or in the workplace.
Mike Pence
#34. Love is still a simple act of faith, and a faithful heart is always worth the wait.
Neil Diamond
#35. The act of faith, which separates us from all men, unites us for the first time in real brotherhood; and they who, one by one, come to Jesus and meet Him alone, next find that they are come to the city of God and to an innumerable company.
Alexander MacLaren
#36. Love is an act of faith, not an exchange.
Contradictions are what make love grow. Conflicts are what allow love to remain by our side.
Paulo Coelho
#37. To some people return to religion is the answer, not as an act of faith but in order to escape an intolerable doubt; they make this decision not out of devotion but in search of security.
Erich Fromm
#38. I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.
Paloma Faith
#39. The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see wide canvasses, conceive complex, character-filled novels. No
matter, the creative act is the same, and it is an act of faith.
Madeleine L'Engle
#40. Any action, like any act of magic, is in some sense an act of faith ... I've seen the desert bloom, the flower that emerges from the barest hint of water, and I know the power of life will rise, stubborn and persistent to be renewed. May our actions be the wind that brings the rain.
Starhawk
#41. We are used to thinking that what we give is the same as what we receive, but people who love, expecting to be loved in return, are wasting their time.
Love is an act of faith, not an exchange.
Paulo Coelho
#42. Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.
Sting
#43. Few souls understand what God would effect in them if they should give themselves entirely into his hands and allow his grace to act.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#44. Writing is an act of faith. One must believe and see people who are invisible to others and be faithful to tell half formed stories. It's like being on the trail of an apparition who's repeatedly just out of reach.
K. Youngblood
Katherine Imogene Youngblood
#45. Your future is co-created out of what you do today. Do you act from fear or faith? You get to choose.
Joe Vitale
#46. The church will not have power to act or believe until it recovers its tradition of faith and permits that tradition to be the primal way out of enculturation.
Walter Brueggemann
#47. There is something about the mental act of thanksgiving that seems to carry the human mind far beyond the region of doubt into the clear atmosphere of faith and trust, where "all things are possible."
H. Emilie Cady
#48. ALL MEN HAVE a religion or totems of some kind. Even the atheist is committed to an enormous act of faith in his belief that the universe created itself and the subsequent creation of intelligent life was simply a biological accident.
James Lee Burke
#49. We must talk and reach for common understandings, precisely because all of us are imperfect and can never act with the certainty that God is on our side; and yet at times we must act nonetheless, as if we are certain, protected from error only by providence.
Barack Obama
#50. One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever.
Robert Holden
#52. The Spirit must therefore first take hold of us before we can live in Christ, and when he doth so, then we are enabled to exert that vital act of faith, whereby we receive Christ.
John Flavel
#53. To forgive' is divine they say, and 'to forget', attracts blessings, but to go a step further, and learn a lesson from a bad encounter/ experience is an act of wisdom;and promise oneself that you will never allow yourself to be exposed to such a thing or a person or even an idea again.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#54. JUNE 22 I am sure of this, that He who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6 Our glorious walk with God began with an act of faith that brought us into relationship with Jesus Christ as our Savior, but it doesn
Beth Moore
#55. Do we accustom ourselves to see all things in the light of faith? Do we correct all our judgments by it? Alas! The greater part of Christians think and act like mere heathens; if we judge (as we justly may) of their faith by their practice, we must conclude they have no faith at all.
Francois Fenelon
#57. Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E.B. White
#58. In its highest form, not judging is the ultimate act of forgiveness.
John Kuypers
#59. We act like pagans in a crisis - only one out of an entire crowd is daring enough to invest his faith in the character of God.
Oswald Chambers
#61. To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.
Samuel Rutherford
#62. As Marx amusingly put it elsewhere, in boom economies everybody acts like a Protestant - they act on pure faith. When the crash comes, though, everyone dives for cover in the "Catholicism" of the monetary base, real gold.
David Harvey
#63. O how he loves you, darling boy. Oh how, like always, he invents the monsters underneath the bed to get you to sleep next to him, chest to chest or chest to back, the covers drawn around you in an act of faith against the night.
Richard Siken
#64. There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolution and have faith, I can only conclude that, as prophesied, to have faith will someday be an act of rebellion.
Criss Jami
#65. The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.
Saint Augustine
#66. No doubt I do act in 'bad faith' when I deliberately avoid facing an honest decision and follow the conventional pattern of behavior in order to be spared the anxiety that comes when one is ... thrown into seventy thousand fathoms.
John Macquarrie
#67. But if there is hope, it lies in ordinary working people. When you put it in words it sounds reasonable: it is when you look at the human beings passing you on the pavement that it becomes an act of faith.
Tony Benn
#68. Faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God.
A.W. Tozer
#69. The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically.
Ralph Ellison
#70. Love is an act of faith in another pesron, not an act of surrender.
Paulo Coelho
#71. The thing about prayer is it always feels like an act of faith - it forms some fragile new chamber in your heart, something empty and vulnerable that bleeds loneliness if God never answers you.
Kelly Loy Gilbert
#72. Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
John Henry Newman
#73. It's an act of faith to be a writer in a post literate world.
Rita Mae Brown
#74. Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.
Alexandra David-Neel
#75. Giving is more than a responsibility-it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience-it is evidence of our faith.
William Arthur Ward
#76. "How can you see Christ in people?" And we only say: It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is an act of love, resulting from an act of faith. It is an act of hope, that we can awaken these same acts in their hearts, too, with the help of God ...
Dorothy Day
#77. Fidelity in a sad marriage can fairly be described as an act of faith.
Stephen L. Carter
#78. Gambling is an act of faith of gamblers.
Prophecy is an act of faith of the saints.
Toba Beta
#79. Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
Irving Babbitt
#80. Journalism is an act of faith in the future
Ann Curry
#81. Whether you call yourself a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu or an Atheist, if you have kindness in your heart and compassion in your act, you are on the right path of religion.
Abhijit Naskar
#83. Maybe every act of faith, as they got older, was meant to make up for an earlier act of faith.
Matthew Salesses
#84. The faith which makes the courage of despair possible is the acceptance of the power of being, even in the grip of non-being. Even in the despair about meaning being affirms itself through us. The act of accepting meaninglessness is in itself a meaningful act. It is an act of faith.
Paul Tillich
#85. Yes, faith still moves mountains. But sometimes the greater act of faith is not praying for the mountain to move instantly but rather hanging in there while God helps you to move it bit by bit.
Lysa TerKeurst
#86. Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.
William Ralph Inge
#87. Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must - if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom - we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith.
Margaret Sanger
#88. The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.
Julia Cameron
#89. I clarified that I myself was Colombian.
"What is 'being Colombian'?"
"I'm not sure," I replied. "It's an act of faith."
"Like being Norwegian," she said, nodding.
I can recall nothing further of what was said that night.
Jorge Luis Borges
#90. Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.
Teresa Of Avila
#91. You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#92. When it comes to love, your point of view, your imagination and your energy can carry you through anything. As you love, it will spill over to everyone and everything you encounter and beyond. There is no force imaginable that is more powerful than the act of love.
Julieanne O'Connor
#93. I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
Madeleine K. Albright
#95. The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.
Karen Armstrong
#97. Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see as the struggle OF faith is really the struggle to act as IF we had faith when in fact we do not.
Dallas Willard
#98. Abiding faith does not depend on borrowed concepts. Rather, it is the magnetic force of a bone-deep, lived understanding, one that draws us to realize our ideals, walk our talk,and act in accord with what we know to be true.
Sharon Salzberg
#99. Because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.
Paulo Coelho
#100. To look at them, leaning against the counter in the tiny kitchen, is to understand the connection between farming, itself an act of blind faith, and religion. If you can believe in a year's worth or corn or beans, it seems, you can believe in anything.
Nick Reding
