Top 100 Act Of Faith Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#4. 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
#5. To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.
Edouard Vuillard
#6. I think reading a translation is an act of faith.
Donna Leon
#7. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. The greatest act of faith some days is to simply get up and face another day.
Amy Gatliff
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#19. Love is still a simple act of faith, and a faithful heart is always worth the wait.
Neil Diamond
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E.B. White
#33. To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.
Samuel Rutherford
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically.
Ralph Ellison
#37. Love is an act of faith in another pesron, not an act of surrender.
Paulo Coelho
#38. 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
#39. It's an act of faith to be a writer in a post literate world.
Rita Mae Brown
#40. 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
#41. "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
#42. Fidelity in a sad marriage can fairly be described as an act of faith.
Stephen L. Carter
#43. Gambling is an act of faith of gamblers.
Prophecy is an act of faith of the saints.
Toba Beta
#44. Journalism is an act of faith in the future
Ann Curry
#45. Maybe every act of faith, as they got older, was meant to make up for an earlier act of faith.
Matthew Salesses
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#53. Because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.
Paulo Coelho
#54. You ask me 'What's the the greatest act of faith?' To me is to look in the mirror of God's word, and see all my faults, all my sin, all my shortcomings and to believe that God loves me exactly as he says he does.
Paul Washer
#55. Every act of reverence, every genuflection that you make before the Blessed Sacrament is important because it is an act of faith in Christ, and act of love for Christ. And every sign of the cross and gesture of respect made each time you pass a church is also an act of faith.
Pope John Paul II
#56. Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#57. I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now; they think that's going to sort things out.
Jarvis Cocker
#58. The act of planting was thus an act of faith and patience.
Sandy Tolan
#59. On every page, confidence fights with self-doubt. Every sentence is an act of faith. Why would anybody want to do it?
David Morrell
#60. Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
George McGovern
#62. Every single record I make is an act of faith in a sense, and somewhere I also have faith that the people who need to hear my music somehow will.
Thalia Zedek
#63. Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.
Harvey Fierstein
#64. Even the most political poem is an act of faith.
Martin Espada
#65. Our perception of "reality" is an act of faith based on mere fragments.
Scott McCloud
#66. Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith ... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so universally accepted is its mathematical beauty.
Paul Dirac
#68. For a long time, the journey will seem like a Dark Night, but then any search is an act of faith.
Paulo Coelho
#69. Love is an act of faith & its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling & emotion because if we try to decipher it & understand it, the magic disappears."
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Kapil Muzumdar
#71. I understand what the Greeks meant by this: Love is an act of faith and its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling and emotion because if we try to decipher it and understand it, the magic disappears.
Paulo Coelho
#72. What if you are just one bend in the road away from achieving your God-ordained purpose? If you give up on your faith now, could you live with knowing that your chance of a lifetime was only one act of faith away?
DeVon Franklin
#73. Christian spirituality means living in the mature wholeness of the gospel. It means taking all the elements of your life - children, spouse, job, weather, possessions, relationships - and experiencing them as an act of faith. God wants all the material of our lives.
Eugene H. Peterson
#74. The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
Thornton Wilder
#77. As the blood of Christ is the fountain of all merit, so the Spirit of Christ is the fountain of all spiritual life; and until he quicken us and infuse the principle of the divine life into our souls, we can put forth no hand, or vital act of faith, to lay hold upon Jesus Christ.
John Flavel
#78. The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrifice, and with extreme effort.
Padre Pio
#79. Adventures don't begin until you get into the forest. That first step is an act of faith.
Mickey Hart
#80. To love God in great things is not so perfect an act of faith as to worship them in small ones.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#81. I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.
Jeanette Winterson
#82. Pastoral work is a commitment to the everyday: it is an act of faith that the great truths of salvation are workable in the ordinary universe.
Eugene H. Peterson
#83. There are two very important things you need to realize from this verse of Scripture. The first one is: Whatever we must receive from God must come as an act of faith, because God is a Faith-God.
Chris Oyakhilome
#84. Grace seeks faith like a heat-seeking missile. In salvation, the act of faith is a raw admission of helplessness. It is abject humility reaching out empty hands. By exercising faith, you acknowledge your inability so that you might rest on Christ's ability.
Bill Giovannetti
#85. He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?
Dave Eggers
#86. Waiting is an exercise of faith that demonstrates the condition of our hearts. Waiting on God is an act of faith. And faith is what separates the men from the boys.
Steve Farrar
#87. A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.
Michael Lewis
#88. Writing is like a religion to those who don't practise, an act of faith for those who do.
Chloe Thurlow
#89. We must remain ready to ask, open-minded enough to be led, and willing to believe despite our bouts of disbelief. Creativity is an act of faith, and we must be faithful to that faith, willing to share it to help others, and to be helped in return.
Julia Cameron
#90. A desperate longing stopped her breath, as if he'd jumped already, leaving her behind. "Please," he said. She took his hand and stepped beside him. She should have run away with him as soon as she could. Maybe every act of faith, as they got older, was meant to make up for an earlier lack of faith.
Matthew Salesses
#91. Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.
Paulo Coelho
#92. Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.
Edwin Louis Cole
#93. Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.
Eric Metaxas
#94. To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.
Emile M. Cioran
#95. I am led irresistibly to this conclusion: food may be life, but the source of power is faith, not food. And who is more capable of a total act of faith than a child?
Stephen King
#96. Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
Paul Tillich
#97. Faith and power, he had come to believe, were interchangeable. Was the final truth even simpler? That no act of faith was possible until you were rudely pushed out into the screaming middle of things like a newborn child skydiving chutelessly out of his mother's womb?
Stephen King
#98. I've dropped my pebble in the ocean, and hopefully; throughout the course of the day; millions of others will drop theirs in too. No single one of us knows which pebble causes the wave to crest, but each of us, quite rightly, believes that it might be ours; an act of faith.
Michael J. Fox
#99. Only a bet on the impossible makes sense. It is an act of faith and courage requiring an irrational leap over reason. A man wins simply by making such a bet.
William Kennedy
#100. Every important choice we make is being guided by one of two places: either it is an act of faith or it is an act of fear. Faith opens the door to a new future.
Debbie Ford
