Top 100 Faith Is Not Quotes
#1. A person who can believe all the articles of the Christian faith is not going to boggle over a trifle of adverse evidence.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#2. Faith is not logical. But it isn't illogical either. Faith is theological. It does not ignore reality; it just adds God into the equation.
Mark Batterson
#3. Faith is not a contract. Faith is surrender. If no other relationship in our experience is one of self-surrender, if it's all contractual, people won't know how to believe.
Francis George
#4. Faith is not just what we believe internally. It's how we behave externally.
Mark Driscoll
#5. If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
Hannah More
#6. A man's faith governs the totality of his life, or else his professed faith is not his real faith.
R.J. Rushdoony
#7. Pretending to have faith is not the way. You need to call to God to reveal himself to you in his power, and then wait for him to come and find you.
Greg Pruett
#8. Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Mahatma Gandhi
#9. The ground of faith is not the sufficiency of the visible means for the performance of the promise, but the all-sufficiency of the invisible God, who will most surely do as He hath said.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#10. A theology that cannot be sung is not worth having ... Authentic Christian faith is not merely believed. Nor is it merely acted upon. It is sung - with utter joy sometimes, in uncontrollable tears sometimes, but it is sung.
Reggie M. Kidd
#11. Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
Faith Evans
#13. True faith is not hard at all. It is soft in its resilience, yielding in its certitude - the vehicle for absolute grace.
Karen Maezen Miller
#14. Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.
Corazon Aquino
#15. It is possible to argue that the true business of faith is not to produce emotional conviction in us, but to teach us to do without it.
Ronald Knox
#16. Faith is not a matter of trusting that events will always occur to our liking, but of trust that, whatever happens, our inner resources will be equal to the moment.
John Robbins
#17. The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
Watchman Nee
#18. Faith is a principle of action. It is our willingness to believe in the Savior that unleashes His power in our lives. Faith is not a bulwark against tribulation, but an assurance that the Lord is overseeing all.
Sheri Dew
#20. 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
#21. What is certainty but the refuge of those whose faith is not strong enough to entertain doubt.
Robert Breault
#22. Faith is not a crime. Blind obedience should be. Too many years wasted in strict adherence to fabricated laws could damn a religion to oblivion.
Kirsten Beyer
#23. Faith is not a generalized abstraction but a way of life that is expressed in persistent prayer.
Eugene H. Peterson
#24. Faith is not something you have to get. It's something that you, as a bornagain child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That's when your healing starts!
Oral Roberts
#25. The opposite of faith is not doubt, it's certainty.
Anne Lamott
#26. Indeed, faith is not, nor can it ever be, the necessary outcome of reflection. Rather, it is the necessary presupposition for reflection. Einstein argues that this is as true for the scientist as it is for the believer.
Michael G Harvey
#27. Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it.
Dan Barker
#28. Sometimes,indeed, the Lord purposely leaves his children, withdraws the divine inflowings of his grace, and permits them to begin to sink, in order that they may understand that faith is not their own work.
(Sermon, "Mr. fearing comforted")
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#29. Absolute faith is not the place of self-affirmation, but the place of self-negation. Life of faith is not limited to our spiritual life. What is important is how our spiritual sensitivity is applied to our relative environment.
Sun Myung Moon
#30. Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.
Joanna Russ
#31. Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests.
Charles Hodge
#32. Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#33. To suffer for the faith is not a penalty; it is a privilege.
Billy Graham
#34. Faith is not a question of basking in the certainty that there is a God and that God is taking care of us. Many of us are never granted this kind of assurance. Certitude is not the real substance of faith. Faith is a way of seeing things.
Ronald Rolheiser
#35. faith is not a static, theoretical concept, but rather is central to one's life and is thus developed carefully and allowed to flourish in all areas of life, it becomes measurable in its effects.
Thomas E. Woodward
#36. Anne Lamott: The opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty.
Brene Brown
#37. Faith is not merely a journey for the feet, but it is also a journey for the heart.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#39. True faith is not a leap in the dark; it's a leap into the light.
Eric Metaxas
#40. It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.
Zoe Heller
#41. It is important to know that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but in fact, certitude and the demand for certitude!
Richard Rohr
#42. Audacious faith is not passive. Neither is audacious prayer. Every aspiration you have in prayer needs an accompanying action. Otherwise you're not really praying. You're just pontificating.
You do the natural. Trust God for the super.
Steven Furtick
#43. Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender.
Bill Johnson
#44. Faith is not about how much you believe in what you believe. Faith is about believing that the One you believe in is believable.
Tony Evans
#46. The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference
Elie Wiesel
#47. The ultimate test of faith is not how loudly you praise God in happy times but how deeply you trust him in dark times.
Rick Warren
#48. ...faith is not fundamentally a developmental phenomenon
James E. Loder
#49. Faith is not accepting the world as it is but insisting on building the world God wants.
Shane Claiborne
#50. Our faith is not meant to get us out of a hard place or change our painful condition. Rather, it is meant to reveal God's faithfulness to us in the midst of our dire situation.
David Wilkerson
#51. Christ was the first feminist and because of that I've learned from his teaching to call myself a Christian feminist, adding that her faith is not a matter of traditions and dogmas but, rather, a spiritual experience.
Jane Fonda
#52. Also noteworthy is the increasingly violent struggle against the dogmatic foundations of the various churches without which in this human world the practical existence of a religious faith is not conceivable.
Adolf Hitler
#53. Faith is not to blindly believe, son. Faith is action. It's doing something. It's creating what we need and believing that God will be merciful enough to grant it in his time.
Orson Scott Card
#54. If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
Alan W. Watts
#56. Just because I'm telling a story about a woman losing faith is not my rebellion against what I grew up in. If anything, it really affected the way I approached the story, and in fact, approach everything. I don't judge my characters.
Vera Farmiga
#58. It is through such failure and weeping that the Abba of Jesus conforms us to the image of His Son. Yet if our faith is not alive and dynamically operative, suffering is absurd, pointless.
Brennan Manning
#59. Faith is not to believe
Or pray that Providence
Will help a chieve
Anything we want,
But to liv e
With confidence
That God will do for us
Everything we need.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#60. Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.
Peter Kreeft
#61. The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
Oswald Chambers
#62. Just as the light of the sun, while it invigorates a living and animated body, produces effluvia in a carcass; so it is certain that the sacraments where the Spirit of faith is not present, breathes mortiferous rather than vital odour.
John Calvin
#63. faith is not hope, not a mere expectation of future things, but a present receiving of that which is promised in a real and substantial way. It is accepting, not expecting.
A.B. Simpson
#66. Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.
William Law
#67. Persuasion may play a part in a man's conversion; but only the part of bringing to its full and conscious climax a process which has been maturing in regions where no persuasion can penetrate. A faith is not acquired; it grows like a tree.
Arthur Koestler
#68. The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.
Tullian Tchividjian
#69. Faith is not a one-time act. It's a way of life.
Jim George
#70. 167. And having not the faith that is resolute, that faith cannot endure, and because it endureth not, how can he attain unto the faith of determination? And attaining not unto the faith of determination, the faith is not sanctified in him.
Shinran
#71. Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.
Evelyn Underhill
#72. Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us, ...
Paulo Coelho
#73. Faith is not always about having positive emotional feelings toward God or life.
Lynn Anderson
#74. Faith is not to get you out of a hard place but to change your heart in the hard place.
David Wilkerson
#75. Faith is not a leap in the dark. Faith is not a "hope so." Faith is substance and evidence - substance for a scientific mind, and evidence for a legal mind.
J. Vernon McGee
#76. The strength of your faith is not measured by the absence of doubt, but by the faithfulness of your life in the face of doubt.
Nicky Gumbel
#77. Faith is not so much something we believe; faith is something we live.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#78. I was just born involved in politics. My family is conservative Mormon, and so I was born - although the Mormon faith is not inherently political, their faith requires some political stands, and those are ones that I happen to disagree with vehemently - so I was just political from a very early age.
Kyrsten Sinema
#79. Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.
Beth Moore
#80. Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
Georges Bernanos
#81. The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#82. The seat of faith ... is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.
Carl Jung
#83. An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding.
Ergun Caner
#84. Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don't have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move.
Betty Eadie
#85. The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do.
Timothy Keller
#86. Faith is not the price that buys God's blessing, it is the hand that receives His blessing. The price was paid for us by Jesus Christ on the cross
Joyce Meyer
#87. Faith is not opposed to evidence that we might gain from perception as well as from reason.
Dallas Willard
#88. Faith is not something to be reasoned from afar, but something we throw ourselves into - heart, mind, and soul.
Linda Dillow
#89. I take the position that true faith is not a supersessional knowledge. It cannot discard the intellect.
E.L. Doctorow
#90. Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
#91. We have it backward. Faith is not business, and there is no such thing as quarterly growth of the inward life.
Ricky Maye
#92. How do I make more than a fumbling attempt to explain that faith is not legislated, that it is not a small box which works twenty-four hours a day? If I 'believe' for two minutes once every month or so, I'm doing well.
Madeleine L'Engle
#93. Christian faith is not an irrational leap.Examined objectively, the claims of the Bible are rational propositions well supported by reason and evidence.
Lee Strobel
#94. Always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.
Mortimer J. Adler
#95. There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.
William Sloane Coffin Jr.
#96. Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.
David Wolpe
#97. A person whom lives by faith is not bound to feel hopelessness or the agony of infinite despair.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#98. I don't mind that people have questions and would look for someone to respond to their questions, particularly if their faith is not terribly well-known.
Mitt Romney
#99. Now faith is not what we
hereafter have we have a
world resting on nothing
Rest was never more than
abstract since it is empty
reality we cannot escape
Susan Howe
#100. Faith is not a leap in the dark; it's the exact opposite. It's a commitment based on evidence ... It is irrational to reduce all faith to blind faith and then subject it to ridicule. That provides a very anti-intellectual and convenient way of avoiding intelligent discussion.
John C. Lennox
