Top 98 I Lost Faith Quotes
#1. I can't make those two realities
what I've lost and what I've found
fit together in some tidy pattern of divine causality. I just have to hold them on the one hand and on the other, just like that.
Kate Braestrup
#2. I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainted through experience. But I also know it's enriched my life, my dad being a Catholic.
Johnny Vegas
#3. Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the claim that Man is basically good. Possibly I lost faith that politicians in high places, who do not have to endure war's savagery, will ever stop blundering and sending others to endure it.
Eugene B. Sledge
#4. I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity.
Fernando Pessoa
#5. To mend our own relationship with God, regaining God's favor after having once lost it, is beyond the power of any one of us. And one must see and bow to this before one can share the biblical faith in God's grace.
J.I. Packer
#6. You said you have faith in us. You told me to come to you when I was ready to be fearless. The truth is, I don't know if I can be fearless. I've lost myself, Reid, and I'm still so scared.
But I'm ready to try. If you still want to, I'm ready.
Tammara Webber
#7. -I haven't been writing for years. I lost faith. it's not for me. Too many levels.
-What levels?
-All those levels of existence. us down here, and up there, high above us. the ceiling of the universe. I've chosen nothingness.
Tadeusz Konwicki
#8. I know it sounds crazy, but as soon as Christians start telling non-Christians how to live their lives, we've lost the Christian faith.
Erwin McManus
#9. Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view.
Ian McEwan
#10. I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations.
Cliff Stearns
#11. His embrace left her breathless and restored all the faith she'd lost in the power of love. When their lips parted, she sighed and said, 'I don't need a party or anything else. All I need is you. I love you.' (Wildflowers)
Catherine Greenfeder
#12. They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.
G.K. Chesterton
#13. I don't know if I even believe in that anymore. The right guy. The perfect guy. The one. I've lost faith in "the".
How do you feel about "a" and "an"?
Indifferent.
So you're considering a life without articles?
Rainbow Rowell
#14. Don't give up faith ... Even if common sense tells you that you should.
Pittacus Lore
#15. I woke up one morning to discover I had lost my religous faith, as if it were a suitcase left behind in a distant airport.
Neely Tucker
#16. I think now that fate is half shaped by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation.
Amy Tan
#17. Like the kite that caught up to the sky,
painted with clouds, I lost track of it,
but it was connected
by string, something I was holding,
something I could always
bring back.
Kelli Russell Agodon
#18. Only when I thought how far I had yet to go that I lost faith that I would get there.
Cheryl Strayed
#19. Go home and say to yourself, 'I am a wayward, foolish child. But He loves me! I have disobeyed and grieved Him ten thousand times. But He loves me! I have lost faith in some of my dearest friends and am very desolate. But He loves me! I do not love Him, I am even angry with Him! But He loves me!
Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
#21. Do you know, I had almost lost faith in the goddess? I almost stopped believing in Her. But I realized I had to become something. I had to take what was done to me and use it to make myself into what I wanted to be. And I wanted this. And when I called Her, the goddess came.
Lev Grossman
#23. With television, I worked on 'Lost,' where you'd just put your faith in the writers and go with what they're writing.
Henry Ian Cusick
#24. I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.
Jose Rizal
#25. I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#26. By the time I went to the Catholic University of America, which was the time the priests were all leaving with the nuns, the more I studied about the Bible and how it came about, the more I lost my faith.
Susan Sarandon
#27. There was so much time lost and the Hell was over. Just when I was beginning to lose faith, Abby pulled me out of the dark.
She was my light. Pure and beautiful.
Ashlan Thomas
#28. I grew up a faithful person. I never lost faith. I prayed every day all throughout my life. But at some point in life, my faith became fairly abstract. And I lost this belief that we have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Carly Fiorina
#29. There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.
Faith Hill
#30. I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
Armistead Maupin
#31. King Hussein never lost his faith, no matter how difficult and unbearable and cruel the circumstances could be. I always remember that. It helps me get through everything. It's a way of trying to keep that positive spirit alive for as many people as we can touch. I think that's good for the world.
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#32. Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.
Anne Rice
#33. I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by ... worried ... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.
B.F. Skinner
#34. I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic - the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win.
Roger Ebert
#35. I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.
Hillary Clinton
#36. Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
Aberjhani
#37. But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my
country.
Upton Sinclair
#38. I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.
Jimmy Carr
#39. Yes, I have doubted. I have wandererd off the path. I have been lost. But I always returned. It is beyond the logic I seek. It is intuitive - an intrinsic, built-in sense of direction. I seem to find my way home. My faith has wavered but has saved me.
Helen Hayes
#40. I had no knowledge of divine help, and all the world lost faith in gradual progress.
Joy Davidman
#41. I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.
Louise Bogan
#42. If reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith ... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.
Brent Weeks
#43. Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.
Orhan Pamuk
#44. Though my sight be lost, I do not yet lose my faith: when I can no longer see, I can still believe.
Ivan Panin
#45. I'm considering getting married again. I've not lost faith in that institution. I'm older; I'm smarter. I'm no longer searching for something to complete me ... and therefore I'm now able to find someone to be a partner with.
Teri Polo
#46. Nothing is lost, Sassenach; only changed." "That's the first law of thermodynamics," I said, wiping my nose. "No," he said. "That's faith.
Diana Gabaldon
#47. I told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be God's way of building walls around us to force us to look up at Him.
Kimberly Novosel
#48. I lost the most precious thing a man can have: my faith in my fellow man. I laughed and I wept at God's irony, at the absurd way he had chosen to demonstrate to me that I was an instrument of Good and Evil.
Paulo Coelho
#49. I'd lost a good deal of my sensibilities, most of my faith in mankind, and all of my underwear somewhere between a graveyard and a church parking lot.
Liliana Hart
#50. I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us.
Umberto Eco
#51. Jenna lost her mother. I lost my credibility. Virgil lost his faith. We've all got missing pieces. But for a little while, I believed that, together, we might be whole.
Jodi Picoult
#52. After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.
Wes Bentley
#53. I know what it does to you, I know. Maybe that's why we hold on as hard as we do. We just can't believe that such a miracle can happen to us twice. But it can, someday you'll find it again.
Laura Zigman
#54. I don't know a politician who enjoys fundraising. The system is such that the American people have lost faith.
John McCain
#55. I wish to go down under the waters -
the cool, crystalline waters that I knew, where all
that is, here, existing, is
is only to be lost within the susurrations
and the rumours of water and the evening star
we wait for...
John Daniel Thieme
#56. So ... maybe it was okay to hope, to trust that things could work out. Maybe ... maybe that was what had kept me human all this time, that faith that I could be more than a monster. When I lost that hope
that was when the monster won.
Julie Kagawa
#57. Tonight I am ugly. I have lost all faith in my ability to attract males, and in the female animal that is a rather pathetic malady ... I don't care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual. What is it that makes one attract others?
Sylvia Plath
#58. I've often lost faith in myself, I've never lost it in my family
David Sedaris
#59. I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world
H.G.Wells
#60. I have lost my faith in goals. At one time, they were like a religion to me. But I am starting to realize that goals by themselves are nothing more than an arrow pointing in a certain direction. The real magic is in the systems you create.
Mark Edward
#61. I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for it. I mean I really feel dread. It is one of the emotions I always feel as I approach it, because I have no faith that my sails won't be ripped this time.
Terence McKenna
#62. This book attempts to
record a journey to restoration that applies to ordinary people like you and I. It is a shot towards healing. A step headed for a new consciousness. It emerges from a moment in time where all seems lost.
Phindiwe Nkosi
#63. I hammered and sawed, the sawdust sprinkled about, and soon, very soon, I would have my garden, thanks to Joseph, a man who saw three lost, lonely, mentally tangled kids and put out a hand to hold so we wouldn't drown in misery.
Cathy Lamb
#64. The first line in the first 'Gasland' is: 'I'm not a pessimist. I've always had a great deal of faith in people that we won't succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we'll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.' I have not lost that sense.
Josh Fox
#65. I've completely lost faith in the Democratic Party to truly serve the disadvantaged.
Bruce Rauner
#66. I love the moments i lost a little faith, spirit would always remind me; it was just a bad day.
Nikki Rowe
#67. I'm not sure when I lost my faith. I don't think it's something that just happens. Maybe I've been worn down bit by bit, pretending to believe in the Vale because it's easier than the alternative. I
Pierce Brown
#68. I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship
Forrest Gander
#69. I don't know how much you have lost faith in people; but you can still find someone to trust.
M.F. Moonzajer
#70. We could have lost faith and just let this battle with cancer get the best of us, or I could give my daughter's battle with cancer a purpose, and use my platform to try to raise as much awareness as possible.
Devon Still
#71. Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
Elie Wiesel
#72. [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
#73. I think I've lost my faith
and I can't stop writing
because I don't know how
much longer I can hold on.
Emma Forrest
#74. I've come to the conclusion that a man without a cause is nothing. He has nothing to look forward to, he has nothing to work toward; he is as a man lost, wandering in the darkest part of his heart to find a deeper, better purpose in his life.
Hazel B. West
#75. I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
Elie Wiesel
#76. But you met the right person, too, didn't you? <> I don't know if I even believe in that anymore. The right guy. The perfect guy. The one. I've lost faith in "the." <> How do you feel about "a" and "an"? <> Indifferent. <> So you're considering a life without articles? <> And true love.
Rainbow Rowell
#77. I fell indeed into a morbid state, deep and enduring, and alien to fear, which has left permanent scars upon my mind. I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world when I saw it suffering the painful disorder of this island. A
H.G.Wells
#78. I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos.
Joan Didion
#79. The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#80. As a man thinketh so is he?
The faith of a mustard seed?
I planted these words in my thoughts, and still, mind wound up lost, between my dreams and reality.
N'Zuri Za Austin
#81. My mother was gentle and warm. She was the sort of person you could really open up to. I was the eldest and her only boy, so I guess I was treated differently. She did bring me up as a Catholic, and at one time I was an altar boy, but I lost my faith, as did my father, when my mother died at 45.
Stephen Mangan
#82. A basic reality of life is that we all struggle. We hurt and have hurt other people. We all feel lost sometimes.
This isn't all we are, but it is a part of who we are. The only question I have when I'm with someone is, Can they admit it? And will they let me admit it too?
Anna White
#83. I was born a Christian, but I became an atheist back in high school because I just started losing faith. I'd lost my brother and best friend, Nadarius. I couldn't get a job. But I do feel like there is a higher power now, and it's inside of me.
SpaceGhostPurrp
#84. Like a lot of once devout people who have lost their faith, I had holes the size of heaven and hell in my head and in my heart.
Sarah Vowell
#85. I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.
Vince Neil
#86. What I want to tell you as you read these stories is that I both found and lost God a hundred times over. In fact, maybe I've never actually found God at all, but imagining that I have indeed found something so much larger and more beautiful than I can explain is more often enough for me.
Ashley Mae Hoiland
#87. I once thought losing my confidence was the worst thing that could happen; then I lost my faith.
Bobby Vee
#88. We have lost faith in ourselves. Therefore to preach the Advaita aspect of the Vedanta is necessary to rouse up the hearts of men, to show them the glory of their souls. It is therefore that I preach this Advaita, and I do so not as a sectarian, but upon universal and widely acceptable grounds.
Swami Vivekananda
#90. Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license.
Andrew Thomas
#91. Simply because I have lost faith in the cause doesn't mean the training has lost all of its usefulness.
Susan Dennard
#92. It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement.
Steven Magee
#93. Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith ... Long ways to go. Grateful to survive. I's frustrating. Mentally hard. Hard work. I'm trying. Trying so hard to get better. Regain what I've lost ... I will get stronger. I will return.
Gabrielle Giffords
#94. If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?
C.S. Lewis
#95. I feels sorrier for him than anybody I knows. I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about more things. He full of books and worrying. He done lost God and turned his back on religion. His troubles come down just to that.
Carson McCullers
#97. I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was this that doubt struck me, and while I was in the guarded circle of the home, with no dream of outside work or outside liberty, that I lost all faith in Christianity.
Annie Besant
#98. I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like an anvil strung around my neck just when I thought I was nearing the shore.
Dinaw Mengestu
