Top 100 Faith It Quotes
#1. There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.
Patrick Wilson
#2. Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.
William Shakespeare
#3. The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
Chris Van Allsburg
#4. The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at your feet.
Jonathan Raban
#5. When everything in your life is right on track, it's easy to believe that things happen for a reason. It's easy to have faith. But when things start to go wrong, then it's very hard to hold on to that faith. It's hard not to wonder who's reasons these things are happening for.
Dakota Fanning
#7. The process of secularisation arises not from the loss of faith but from the loss of social interest in the world of faith. It begins the moment men feel that religion is irrelevant to the common way of life and that society as such has nothing to do with the truths of faith.
Christopher Henry Dawson
#8. Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.
Richard M. Weaver
#9. Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.
Elizabeth I
#10. To believe in Jesus, is to believe that the historic person who lived on this earth more than 2000 years ago was the image of the invisible God. That's a huge leap of faith, but it is my leap of faith, it's the act of faith of the Christian community.
Richard Rohr
#11. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
G.K. Chesterton
#12. If in anything I have faith in something you could call the human spirit - I have faith it will always save itself at the last minute.
Vashti Bunyan
#13. Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours. It's a lovely art form because the actors and the audience are alive and in the room at the same time together. That's why I love the theatre.
Israel Horovitz
#14. At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.
Whittaker Chambers
#15. But we don't have a right to force anyone to abandon their faith. It is one of the foundational commitments of who we are as Americans to respect diversity.
Ted Cruz
#16. I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
Fidel Castro
#17. Let us thank God for having called us to His holy faith. It is a great gift, and the number of those who thank God for it is small.
Alphonsus Liguori
#18. If we have not developed a reservoir of spiritual wealth, no amount of money is likely to make us happy. Spiritual wealth provides faith. It gives us love. It brings and expands wisdom. Spiritual wealth leads to happiness because it guides us into useful or loving relationships.
John Templeton
#19. It's dead obvious that creationism isn't science, or even bad science. It's nonsense. But I've long stated it's also bad religion, because it doesn't just take faith, it also takes a phenomenal disregard of reality.
Phil Plait
#20. You know one of the most encouraging things about faith? It pleases God.
Charles R. Swindoll
#21. It is one thing to believe in justification by faith, it is another thing to be justified by faith.
Adolph Saphir
#22. For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist; it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart - then no problem.
Dalai Lama
#23. Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.
Bear Grylls
#24. The Bible makes it clear that reason is not the front door of faith. It takes spiritual eyes to discern spiritual matters. But how do we develop spiritual eyes unless Christians engage the culture with those questions and paradigms of mindfulness out of which spiritual logic flows?
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#25. After character becomes imbued with conscious principles of love, integrity, and faith, it opens the door for purity and holiness to converge at the portals of the soul like sentinels guarding against any counter attacks from the ego.
Garey Gordon
#26. Your faith may be just a little thread. It may be small and weak, but act on that faith. It does not matter how big your faith is, but rather, where your faith is.
Billy Graham
#27. Loving another person is taking a giant leap of faith. It's being vulnerable at the most basic level. It's like taking your heart out of your chest and chucking it off a cliff, hoping that someone is waiting at the bottom with open arms to catch it.
J. Sterling
#28. The important thing is not the size of your faith - it is the One behind your faith - God Himself.
Oral Roberts
#29. Evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity, one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution.
Michael Shermer
#30. God's Word says that you have your answer if you based your petition on the Word and believed you received it when you prayed. When you believe you receive your answer before you see it manifested, you are appropriating God's Word by faith. It's that kind of faith that moves God!
Kenneth E. Hagin
#31. A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere.
Derek Prince
#32. Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.
Abraham Kuyper
#33. The first spiritual quality we need to have is not faith; it is courage.
Paulo Coelho
#34. I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.
Ernie Harwell
#35. Wherever God has given faith, it is given, among other reasons, for the very purpose of being tried.
George Muller
#36. Our age could be characterized as a manifold experiment in faithlessness, and if it has as yet produced no effective understanding of the practicalities of faith, it has certainly produced massive evidence of the damage and disorder of its absence.
Wendell Berry
#37. This book has been written against a background of both reckless optimism and reckless despair. It holds that Progress and Doom are two sides of the same medal; that both are articles of superstition, not of faith. It
Hannah Arendt
#38. Faith-not a faith in one's self or in one's own powers but faith in principle; in the Something Great which upholds right, and which may be relied upon to give us the victory in due time. Without this faith it is not possible for any one to rise to real greatness.
Wallace D. Wattles
#39. Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.
Philip Yancey
#41. Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
John Henry Newman
#42. When people criticize you, it's not always for your actions but for what you represent. If they're really criticizing you for your faith, it's important to maintain your focus and continue on the pathway that God has set before you, even in the midst of criticism.
Tony Dungy
#43. By faith it appears that in order to understand the meaning of life I must renounce my reason, the very thing for which alone a meaning is required.
Leo Tolstoy
#44. Faith, it is said, is better than belief, because belief is when someone else does the thinking.
Mitch Albom
#45. What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
Paul Wellstone
#46. It is not that we don't have faith it is just that Satan is trying to destroy our faith with lies.
Joyce Meyer
#47. It's not easy waiting on You, it's not easy believing that You got this together, but without faith it is impossible to please You.
Kirk Franklin
#48. Great faith it needs, according to my view, To trust in that which never could be true.
Benjamin
#49. I believe because I am told to believe ... My faith is faith; it is not evolved out of argumentation, nor does it seek the aid of that.
Christina Rossetti
#51. Hinduism is not just a faith. It is the union of reason and intuition that can not be defined but is only to be experienced. Evil and error are not ultimate. There is no Hell, for that means there is a place where God is not, and there are sins which exceed his love.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
#52. When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#54. Loss will gut-punch you no matter the age of the deceased. It drops you to your knees. It shatters the dreams of your families...It brings tears, anger, shock and a rejection of faith--or the complete opposite: a reliance on faith. It creates the walking wounded.
Mary Jedlicka Humston
#55. There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.
Christopher Hitchens
#56. I really believe in science. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it's different from religion in that, as near as we can tell, it exists outside of us. It has an objective quality, the process of science.
Bill Nye
#57. Where there is lack, God's abundance is on the way. Hold on. Have faith. It's coming.
Marianne Williamson
#58. Before you "re-think" your faith, it may be wise to examine the critics of the Bible. In the end your faith will be even stronger.
Billy Graham
#59. Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.
Paul Tillich
#60. I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
Natasha Trethewey
#61. This is why you can never reason true Christians out of the faith. It's not, as the adage has it, because they were never reasoned into it - many were - it's that faith is a logical door which locks behind you. What looks like a line of thought is steadily warping ...
John Jeremiah Sullivan
#62. Just as religion can lead its devotees to suspend reason for faith, it can also lead them to suspend morality for piety. Indeed,
Ali A. Rizvi
#63. Discouragement is the opposite of faith. It is Satan's device to thwart the work of God in your life.
Billy Graham
#64. But even in my darkest days I had faith it would turn around.
Steve Harvey
#65. 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
#66. Good dogs should never be asked to prove that they're good dogs. If there's anything in this world that we should take on faith, it's good dogs.
Mira Grant
#67. Even in faith, it is not easy for me to say to God, I am sorry for wanting my enemies to be destroyed and punished before my eyes. It is dishonest to say that it is easy to forgive our enemies, even to ask forgiveness for longing for revenge.
David Kwang-sun Suh
#68. [Asked if American women would ever win full suffrage:] Assuredly. I firmly believed at one time that I should live to see that day. I have never for one moment lost faith. It will come but I shall not see itit is inevitable.
Susan B. Anthony
#69. A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.
Michael Lewis
#70. Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith
Paul Tillich
#71. Hope is like a word made with cloud, without faith, it quickly blows away.
Anthony Liccione
#72. the simplest definition of the Abrahamic faith. It is not our task to conquer or convert the world or enforce uniformity of belief. It is our task to be a blessing to the world. The use of religion for political ends is not righteousness but idolatry.
Jonathan Sacks
#73. The stress that some of us feel - it's a lack of faith, it really is.
Francis Chan
#74. When you use your faith, it gives you energy. It gives you the ability to be able to see beyond where you are right now and see into the future.
Victoria Osteen
#75. Faith is a belief in things that your senses have not experienced and your mind does not understand, but you have touched them in other ways and have accepted them. It is easy for one to speak of faith; it is another thing to live it.
Peace Pilgrim
#76. The virtue she valued most was faith. It had no place on Franklin's list. She placed her trust in Providence. He placed his faith in man.
Jill Lepore
#77. Second-degree faith is resurrection faith. It's a faith that refuses to put periods at the end of disappointments. It's a faith that believes that God can reverse the irreversible.
Mark Batterson
#78. God's got something for me. I have faith it'll be OK.
Chubby Checker
#79. The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is powerful - a very powerful destroyer; but it is useless for building up. Love, on the other hand, is like faith; it can move mountains, and faith, we have mountains to move.
Douglas Hyde
#80. For me, it all begins with faith; it begins with what matters most, and I try and put what I believe to be moral truth first. My philosophy of government second. And my politics third.
Mike Pence
#81. There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.
Eric Butterworth
#82. If you look at a group of people that had faith, it's got to be the Jews. They followed Moses through the desert for 40 years with no map. There had to be one guy in the back, like, 'I don't think he knows where he's going.'
Adam Ferrara
#83. 6And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God m must believe that he exists and m that he rewards those who seek him.
Anonymous
#84. None of us really know what we're doing," Dia replied. "We just go out there and do it and have faith it'll turn out okay.
J.M. Darhower
#85. For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
John Ortberg
#86. It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the dupe of one's ambition.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#87. Believing in the inherent good of humankind is akin to having faith. It is to believe in something that may not be readily apparent.
Charles F. Glassman
#88. There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination.
Godfried Danneels
#89. 'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.
Eric Liu
#90. Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.
Pat Summitt
#91. The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.
Jeff Miller
#92. Mine is a stubborn and recalcitrant faith. It's all elbows and motion and kicked-up dust, like cartoon characters locked in a cloudy brawl. I'm still early in my journey, but I suspect it will go on like this for a while, perhaps until my last breath.
Rachel Held Evans
#93. Pseudo faith always arranges a way out to serve in case God fails it. Real faith knows only one way and gladly allows itself to be stripped of any second way or makeshift substitutes. For true faith, it is either God or total collapse.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#94. People hand over the power to you withimmense faith. It's your job to ensure tough implementation of laws.
Raj Thackeray
#95. There is much more to wealth than simply a bank account with many zeros. A well-balanced, whole life is made up of wealth and success that comes from many facets; family, friends, work, faith, it is the complete person who works on each of these areas and creates the whole,
Celso Cukierkorn
#96. It is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of practice
Nhat Hanh
#97. Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
Ben Carson
#98. True faith, it is a well-known fact, has little regard for chapels, but does believe in the communion of mysteries.
Muriel Barbery
#99. Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.
Ann Voskamp
#100. Da used to say that lies were easy, but trust was hard. Trust is like faith: it can turn people into believers, but every time it's lost, trust becomes harder and harder to win back.
Victoria Schwab
