Top 100 Quotes About Our Faith
#1. To live, grow, and persevere in the faith until the end we must nourish it with the word of God; we must beg the Lord to increase our faith;45 it must be "working through charity," abounding in hope, and rooted in the faith of the Church.46 (2089, 1037, 2016, 2573, 2849)
The Catholic Church
#2. God cannot reveal His faithfulness until we exercise our faith. But because Abraham went all in, God was able to reveal Himself as Jehovah-jireh, God our Provider.
Mark Batterson
#3. Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
Gelett Burgess
#4. We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him
but we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration
we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey.
Albert E Cliffe
#5. Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.
Bob Goff
#6. This is the victory that has conquered the world: our faith.
Anonymous
#7. When we cave to discouragement, we are really saying that we think our circumstances are bigger than the Creator of the universe. The reason discouragement has such potential to overshadow our faith is because, simply put, it reflects an unwillingness to trust God.
Kasey Van Norman
#8. Serving others is the best way of applying our faith in such a way that it leads to real transformation and change.
Bob Roberts Jr.
#9. Jesus, help us to build our faith in You, and to believe in Your provision for every need. We also ask You to give us a vision of what You want to do in our lives for Your glory. In Your name, amen.
Stephen Kendrick
#10. We can love God out of emotion; but when we can love Him out of emotion, knowledge and strength, our faith will thrive through all things.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#11. Our faith can only go as far as our awareness of Gods goodness
Bill Johnson
#12. We conquer fear with courage, and so through courage we gain our faith
Misty Moncur
#13. The full concept of discipleship includes sharing our faith, leading people to Christ, and helping them to mature in their faith. But somewhere along the line, the church has separated evangelism from discipleship.
Greg Laurie
#14. If our faith in Jesus Christ isolates us from those who need him, there's something wrong with our faith - and our love.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#15. Our faith becomes stronger as we express it; a growing faith is a sharing faith
Billy Graham
#16. The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Thomas Aquinas
#17. The name 'Seventh-day Adventist' carries the true features of our faith in front and will convict the inquiring mind. Like an arrow from the Lord's quiver, it will wound the transgressors of God's law, and will lead to repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ellen G. White
#18. Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused
hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive. That is a lie. All they require is our recognition.
Charles De Lint
#19. Without prayer, our faith is weakened, our love grows cold, our hope becomes uncertain.
Terence Cooke
#20. If we don't love and respect ourselves, everything else disintegrates: our relationships, our work, our faith, and our dreams. We are the only filter between the world and ourselves. The more we doubt the filter, the more we doubt everything, sinking into indifferent apathy.
Jonathan Heston
#21. Our attitude towards immigration reflects our faith in the American ideal. We have always believed it possible for men and women who start at the bottom to rise as far as the talent and energy allow. Neither race nor place of birth should affect their chances.
Robert Kennedy
#22. If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened.
George Muller
#23. This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.
Mitt Romney
#24. When God says that our faith is the substance of what we hope for, what we are expecting, He's giving us an open invitation with no limits and no boundaries.
Larry Huch
#25. Through our faith, we gain the courage to take action. And through action, we move one step closer toward the manifestation of our desires.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#26. Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may be as flawed as those of anyone else.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#27. Despite the depth and certainty of our faith that saturated fat is the nutritional bane of our lives and that obesity is caused by overeating and sedentary behavior, there has always been copious evidence to suggest that those assumptions are incorrect, and that evidence is continuing to mount.
Gary Taubes
#28. We cannot learn patience by reading a book or hearing a lecture. The only way we can learn patience is by going through the trials that God assigns to us. The trials of life are the tools God uses to mature us, to build our faith, and to get us to trust the Spirit and not the flesh.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#29. Trials are a part of life, but there is value in sometimes experiencing adversity which will test (and so strengthen) our faith and also build an understanding of God and ourselves.
Eric Ives
#31. We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.
Yvette Clarke
#32. It is difficult to have faith when our hearts are consumed by fear, but it is when we are afraid that we need to hang onto our faith the most.
A.A. Frias
#33. The inspiration and authority of the Bible is the bedrock upon which our faith is built. Without it, we are doomed to uncertainty, doubt, and a hopeless groping in the darkness of human speculation.
Sam Storms
#35. Our dreams are full of magic that fuel our faith ... so don't stop dreaming and don't ever stop feeding them.
Timothy Pina
#36. Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#37. I would argue that healthy doubt (questioning one's beliefs) is perhaps the best defense against unhealthy doubt (questioning God). When we know how to make a distinction between our ideas about God and God himself, our faith remains safe when one of those ideas is seriously challenged.
Rachel Held Evans
#38. Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
William James
#39. People judge us not by what we think or believe, but by what we do - and when our lives don't measure up, we lose their respect and they conclude our faith isn't real.
Billy Graham
#40. Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.
Dirk Kempthorne
#41. 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
#42. I grew up in a fundamentalist protestant family that stressed that we were a select people and so we were to avoid contact with others who did not share our faith.
Garrison Keillor
#43. Theology is faith seeking understanding, but understanding is more than theoretical. If we really grasp who and where we are as disciples, we should know how to live out our faith.
Kevin Vanhoozer
#44. Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers who has so singularly favored the American people in every national trial and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps
William McKinley
#45. Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#46. If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon the Almighty God that he would bless the results for us
Haile Selassie
#47. Despite all of the negative challenges we have in life, we must take time to actively exercise our faith. Such exercise invites the positive, faith-filled power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ into our lives.
Richard G. Scott
#48. Our Faith will never be true unless it is united to that of St. Peter and the Pontiff, his successors.
Alphonsus Liguori
#49. The only way our faith can strengthen is if we use it.
Lysa TerKeurst
#50. Our faith is really proven in the way we talk to ourselves. The loudest human voice you will listen to is your own. Choose your words wisely.
Christine Caine
#51. If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?
Lewis H. Lapham
#52. Time of difficulty test our faith, our fortitude and our strenght. During these times, the level of our imaan becomes manifest
Yasmin Mogahed
#53. In the God of all creation, we put our faith and trust. And give our lives to you, cause you gave your life for us.
Randy Travis
#54. We have learned from none others the plan of our salvation, than from those through whom the Gospel has come down to us, which they did at one time proclaim in public, and, at a later period, by the will of God, handed down to us in the Scriptures, to be the ground and pillar of our faith
Irenaeus Of Lyons
#55. Condemnation will defeat us but conviction unlocks our faith to face the challenge ahead.
Bhavya
#56. We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
Ann Voskamp
#57. The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith
John Calvin
#58. Whenever God brings us through a severe trial, it will reveal to us either the strength or weakness of our faith and the faithfulness of God.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#59. The saint maintains his piety through the graphic imagination of other people's vices. We thank him for it. The saint's impossible perfection allows us to go on being gargoyles while keeping our faith alive. We admire him for it. The saint's silence covers far more than our interpretations of it.
Ranjit Hoskote
#60. It's true that we sometimes require our faith to lean on and provide us with strength and courage, but no more than those who lack faith and lean on the truly feeble power of money.
Robert Palasciano
#61. Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants.
Phillips Brooks
#62. When we privatize our faith, we cease to be salt and light in the world. No longer part of a countercultural revolution, or an outpost of heaven demonstrating God's plan for restoration and resurrection, we reduce our faith to this: "Jesus came, died, and rose from the grave to get me into heaven.
Mike Slaughter
#63. I do believe that when we face challenges in life that are far beyond our own power, it's an opportunity to build on our faith, inner strength, and courage. I've learned that how we face challenges plays a big role in the outcome of them.
Sasha Azevedo
#64. When God says to us, " Give me your load, trust me, what you cannot do, I will do for you,"He puts our faith to one of the strongest tests. He never consents to carry our burdens unless we give them to Him.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#65. For Christians, doing something about climate change is about living out our faith - caring for those who need help, our neighbors here at home or on the other side of the world, and taking responsibility for this planet that God created and entrusted to us.
Katharine Hayhoe
#66. the mission and purpose of the church was summed up into three words that I believe are the crux of our faith: Christ, cause, and community.
Jarrid Wilson
#67. God can change our circumstances, but sometimes He waits for us to show real desire for change as well as our faith in Him.
Anne Graham Lotz
#68. Our goal as parents should be to endeavor to pass down our faith to the next generation in such a way that they will be able to pass down their faith to the following generation in our absence.
Michelle Anthony
#69. When trials expose our faith-life, will others see us embracing both the joy and the pain of our life? We do not need to live out one and deny the other. Those around us need to recognize that both of these elements are part of life, and both give us hope for heaven.
Kay Warren
#70. We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter.
John D. Rockefeller
#72. Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were, to be in collusion with the Church's enemies and in conformity with the open foes of our faith.
Peter Canisius
#73. It has not been the fashion to be scientific about religion, but it is necessary that we should be scientific; it is time that we examined ourselves as to our faith and tried to know what we believe and why, and on what we base our belief.
Charles Webster Leadbeater
#74. It's only our faith in illusions that makes life possible...It's believing in reality that does us in every time.
Richard Flanagan
#75. God orders us to believe and trust in his goodness, but at the same time, we should never test him. We must take advantage of opportunities that God gives us. If we don't, we aren't living according to his plan. But we must continue to maintain our faith and hope in God.
Martin Luther
#76. Often, breaking integrity means repeatedly doing things we do not love with people we do not care for. Isn't life meant to be a passionate love affair with our work, our faith, and those we are blessed to know, care for, and serve?
Brendon Burchard
#77. Study God's word to show thyself approved and be prepared for the tests that we are given. They make our faith stronger and our character more mature, so that our lives better glorify the Lord.
Calvin W. Allison
#78. When our children know more about teen pop idols than they do about Jesus Christ, isn't it time for us to reassess the place and priority our faith has in our lives?
Matthew Kelly
#80. Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.
Johann Georg Hamann
#81. If our faith can live without God, it is not divinely created. If God had begotten it, it would wait upon Him as the flowers wait upon the dew.
Charles Spurgeon
#82. If we won't be serious about dealing with our sin,we cannot expect to grow in our faith. If you want to move to a new level with God,take an inventory of what God has told you about your sin and consider what you've been doing about it.
Richard Blackaby
#83. Kissing was an extension of that, a celebration. A little party between us, amplifying our naive joy, our faith that the world was delighted to give us just what we wanted.
Katie Alender
#84. Once we recognize our need for Jesus, then the building of our faith begins. It is a daily, moment-by-moment life of absolute dependence upon Him for everything
Catherine Marshall
#85. Hope is at the core of our faith in Christ. As we allow His hope to flow into us, it will flow through us even in the most difficult circumstances. If you are struggling today, take heart.
Renee Swope
#86. The way we are with each other is the truest test of our faith.
Brennan Manning
#87. First, if Francis were around today, he'd say our church community relies too much on words to tell others about our faith. For Francis, the gathered community was as potent a form of witness as words. He was convinced that how we live together is what attracts people to faith.
Ian Morgan Cron
#88. Prayers are heard in heaven in proportion to our faith. Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater.
Charles Spurgeon
#89. Our temptation now and always is not to trust in God but to trust in our faith tradition of trusting in God.
Richard Rohr
#90. Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.
Lester B. Pearson
#91. We are not to be occupied with our feelings or symptoms,
or our faith or lack of faith,
but only with what God has said
Gordon Lindsay
#92. The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Karl Barth
#93. The only way our faith will ever strengthen is for us to use it. We need to apply thought and prayer to our decisions and then trust God for the outcome. We need to set our sights on growing in faith, not shrinking back for fear of failure.
Lysa TerKeurst
#95. We should always be learning. However, we must be careful not to set aside our faith in the process, because faith actually enhances our ability to learn.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#96. Religion and politics are inseparable because the values of our faith should inform what we value in our politics. They both seek to answer questions about the good life.
Jim DeMint
#97. Our faith in Christ, who became poor, and was always close to the poor and the outcast, is the basis of our concern for the integral development of society's most neglected members.
Pope Francis
#98. The devil uses fear as means to control us, but God uses our faith to free us.
Kimberly Wright
#99. When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and rely entirely on his help, we will be granted the most excellent gift of patience and through faith we may victoriously persevere to the end.
John Calvin
#100. The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith
J. Gresham Machen
