Top 100 By Faith Quotes
#1. None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith.
Matthew Henry
#2. Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#3. Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.
John Calvin
#4. Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat.
E. Merrill Root
#5. Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.
William Gurnall
#6. Not through thoughts, wisdom, and will does the faith of Christ arise in us, but through an uncommon incomprehensible and hidden operation of the Spirit, which is given by faith in Christ only at the hearing of the Word and without any other work ours.
Roland H. Bainton
#7. For we walk by faith, not by sight.
Christian
#8. Right faith is of necessity required for Baptism, since it is said: "the justice of God is by faith in Jesus Christ" (Romans 3:22) ... Therefore, Baptism without faith avails nothing and thus we must recall that without faith no one is acceptable to God.
Thomas Aquinas
#9. Every step with God is a step of faith. Every lesson learned is a lesson of faith. Every victory won is a victory by faith. That's the prominence of faith in the New Testament.
James MacDonald
#11. It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son.
Thomas S. Monson
#12. Justification by faith is the key to eliminating racism.
Shai Linne
#13. Sects and 'isms' have branched out in one direction and another, but still Jesus from the invisible worlds enfolds in his love all the Sons of Seth who will call upon his name by faith, and he will eventually unite the scattered churches in the Kingdom of Christ.
Max Heindel
#14. Most people are blinded by faith leaving them unable to see the truth that is science.
Harry Gordon Johnson
#15. If you are going to live by faith, then expect your faith to be tested. A faith that can't be tested can't be trusted.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#16. No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and express terms, than Arminius has done.
John Wesley
#17. How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith.
Archibald MacLeish
#18. Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and union with Him by faith, that person is standing on a foundation which shall never be moved, and will know something of true peace.
J.C. Ryle
#19. When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#20. Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence.
Stefan Zweig
#21. 3 By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.
Anonymous
#22. God goes ahead of a man who walks by faith, that is the beauty of faith
Sunday Adelaja
#23. I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
Saint Bernard
#24. God has stepped in at the last minute more than once in history (remember Moses at the Red Sea?). And He can do the same for you. Keep turning the pages by faith and let the story play out to the end.
David Jeremiah
#25. We should not rely on our feelings; we had to walk by faith and not by sight. If we preserve in the Lord, we always succeed.
Angus Buchan
#26. I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a passtime, if we live simply and wisely
Henry David Thoreau
#27. In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.
Walter Lang
#29. Forgiveness, cleansing, regeneration, the Holy Spirit, all answers to prayer, are given to faith and received by faith. There is no other way. This is common evangelical doctrine and is accepted wherever the cross of Christ is understood.
A.W. Tozer
#30. We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior.
Billy Graham
#31. I have never targeted Muslims. I have never targeted Jews. I believe that we should declare the fact that God loves you, God's willing to forgive you, God can change you, and Christ and his kingdom is open to anybody who repents and by faith receives him as lord and savior.
Billy Graham
#32. There is no limit to the heights we can reach if we take action by faith.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#34. By faith we understand the word and work of God - The faith of the ancients was centered in Christ - By faith, men subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, and worked miracles.
Anonymous
#35. Although we're made right with God by faith, and not by works, the effectiveness of our prayers is often tied to the holiness of our lives.
Craig Groeschel
#36. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after being encircled for seven days. Hebrews 11:30
Beth Moore
#37. Only the people who are working the victory by faith will experience the joy of harvest
Sunday Adelaja
#38. Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.
Nicolas Malebranche
#39. I frequently hear persons exhorted to give their hearts to Christ ... But that is not the Gospel. Salvation comes from something that Christ gives you, not something that you give to Christ. The giving of your heart to Christ follows after the receiving from Christ of eternal life by faith.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#40. Faith is obscure. By faith a man moves through darkness; but he moves securely, his hand in the hand of God. He is literally seeing through the eyes of God.
Walter Farrell
#41. Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer ... Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#43. He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.
Jules Verne
#44. God respects men of faith. By faith you can write your name into the history of this generation.
Sunday Adelaja
#46. Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change, and in the new direction that change sets will reveal your own inner core of steel.
Georgette Mosbacher
#47. The New Testament never uses the expression 'help' of the grace of God in the soul. We have absolutely no power - God is not to help us, because we are weak: no, He is to give His life and His power in us as entirely impotent. He that discerns this aright will learn to live by faith alone.
Andrew Murray
#48. If we are interested in Christ by faith, notwithstanding our imperfections and sins, God will be our God through grace.
Adoniram Judson
#49. No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.
John Owen
#50. There's a pardon for every sinner on the topside of the earth, but you have to call for it by faith before it becomes yours. In other words, you have to trust Christ as your Savior.
J. Vernon McGee
#51. Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
Martin Luther
#52. Where reasons are given, we don't need faith. Where only darkness surrounds us, we have no means for seeing except by faith.
Elisabeth Elliot
#53. Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.
Saint Ambrose
#54. By faith we proclaim that we are "justified". By His sinless sacrifice Jesus declares and makes us "righteous" by giving us His very own righteousness!
John Paul Warren
#55. I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.
Deepak Chopra
#56. But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
John Calvin
#57. In a household of faith, there is no need to fear or doubt. Choose to live by faith and not fear.
Kevin W. Pearson
#59. When you feel nothing, God is teaching you to live by faith.
Rick Warren
#60. Prayer is receiving by faith what God has already done!
Andrew Wommack
#61. Scripture knows no other way to glory, but Christ put on and applied by faith.
John Flavel
#62. When I take hold of Jesus by faith as my only hope to please God, God declares that I am justified. Christ's righteousness becomes mine. That's grace.
Gloria Furman
#63. It was only by faith in Christ that they could secure pardon of sin and receive strength to obey God's law. They must cease to rely upon their own efforts for salvation, they must trust wholly in the merits of the promised Saviour, if they would be accepted of God.
Ellen G. White
#64. Our walk by faith, if it is true biblical faith, will get us in trouble.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#65. Justification is by faith alone, but not by a faith that is alone.
R.C. Sproul
#67. They knew that it was necessary to believe these things and to love God. They knew that there could be no salvation except by faith, and through the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#68. Moreover, the whole purpose of God's mighty acts is to bring man to know Him by faith; and Scripture knows no foundation for faith but the spoken word of God, inviting our trust in Him on the basis of what He has done for us.
J.I. Packer
#69. We don't always have the explanations for certain events and acts of God. He is sovereign. He owes us no explanation. He purposes to teach us to walk by faith and not by sight. When Scripture records an event or judgment
Beth Moore
#70. A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
Jonathan Edwards
#71. One of the features of a democracy is the disentanglement of the sacred from the secular because in religiously pluralistic countries, no one can legitimately claim special status by faith membership.
Michael Shermer
#72. The whole life story of Jesus, on the human side, is the life story of One who lived by faith.
G. Campbell Morgan
#73. Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!
Emily Dickinson
#74. What does it mean to walk by faith? It means to obey God's Word in spite of the feelings within us, the circumstances around us, and the consequences before us.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#75. We must be guided by faith. If we are guided by fear we lock ourselves and our expansion.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#76. For those who live by faith, the cross is a treasure more valuable than gold and precious stones.
Basil Moreau
#77. To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Samuel Johnson
#78. Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.
Jostein Gaarder
#79. We do not understand and then obey: that is instruction. We obey by faith, and then we understand: that is illumination.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#80. It is more to the honor of a Christian by faith to overcome the world, than by monastical vows to retreat from it; more for the honor of Christ to serve him in the city, than to serve him in the cell.
Matthew Henry
#81. *I have fulfillment for this day because Christ lives in me. (Philippians 1:20-21) *By faith, I will allow Christ to manifest His life through me. (2 Corinthians 2:14)
Kenneth D. Boa
#82. GAL3.11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. GAL3.12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
Anonymous
#83. When we try to focus our thought upon One who is pure uncreated being we may see nothing at all, for He dwelleth in light that no man can approach unto. Only by faith and love are we able to glimpse Him as He passes by our shelter in the cleft of the rock.
A.W. Tozer
#84. She had walked to the brink, abandoning all belief, and just before the bitter end, she was pulled from the abyss by faith.
Sage Steadman
#85. In God's school we learn through the heart rather than through the head, and by faith rather than logic.
Samuel Logan Brengle
#86. You can pray just like anyone else. The gifts of the Spirit belong to the Holy Spirit. You have this inside you by faith and can be a conduit.
Richard Rossi
#87. We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith ... Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency and in our lives.
Bob Dole
#88. The Age of Faith: and by 'faith' understand the denial of all scientific reasoning.
Rius
#89. Living by faith isn't living with certainty. It's trusting God in spite of unanswered questions and unresolved doubts.
Rick Warren
#90. A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous ...
John Calvin
#91. The evidence of justification by faith is the ongoing work of sanctification through the Holy Spirit.
Paul Washer
#92. We all learned valuable lessons from that crop. The Lord showed us the importance of walking by faith, and not by sight, of trusting him unconditionally and never giving up.
Angus Buchan
#94. I know by a full assurance that I am justified by faith which is in Christ Jesus, and treated as if I had been perfectly just, and made an heir of God and a joint heir with Christ; and yet by nature I must take my place among the most sinful.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#95. We cannot enjoy power in the priesthood until we learn to act by faith.
Robert L. Millet
#96. Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine majesty, likewise we experience that we derive the greatest joy of which we are capable in this life from the same contemplation, even though it is much less perfect.
Rene Descartes
#97. Christian, be a Christian: live by faith; walk by the Spirit; serve in the strength that God supplies.
John Piper
#98. The atonement is a miracle, and miracles are rather to be accepted by faith than measured by calculation.
Anonymous
#99. justification by faith alone frees me to love my neighbor disinterestedly, for his or her own sake, as my sister or brother, not as the calculated means to my own desired ends.
Timothy George
#100. The provisions of Christ's gospel appear mean and scanty to the world, yet they satisfy all that feed on him in their hearts by faith with thanksgiving.
Matthew Henry
