Top 100 The Faith Quotes
#1. But if I be asked what sign we may look for to show that the advance of the faith is at hand I would answer by a word the modern world has forgotten: Persecution. When that shall once more be at work it will be morning.
Hilaire Belloc
#2. They needed someone to explain, to spin, the parts of the tale that couldn't be suppressed. Someone reputable and educated. Someone brilliant yet absolutely committed to the faith. Someone like my father.
Martha N. Beck
#3. If satan can keep you in the sense realm, he will destroy you - but if you keep him in the faith realm, you'll put him under your feet.
Frederick K. C. Price
#4. Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.
Janet Evanovich
#5. I don't want to base my life on a symbol," he said resolutely. "I want reality, and the Christian faith has always been rooted in reality. What's not rooted in reality is the faith of liberal scholars. They're the ones who are following a pipe dream, but Christianity is not a pipe dream.
Gregory A. Boyd
#6. Be equally indifferent to both and abide in the faith of God. That will be so only when one's faith is strong that God looks after all of us.
Ramana Maharshi
#7. The chances you take, the people you meet, the people you love, the faith that you have. That's what's going to define you.
Denzel Washington
#8. If we live the faith in our daily life, then our work too becomes a chance to spread the joy of being a Christian.
Pope Francis
#9. Even when you can't see, God is working it out. You should not be discouraged or give up hope. Keep the Faith! Your situation is not your destination. God will do what he promised, you just be ready
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#10. It took seven years from the time I wrote Mad Men until it finally got on the screen. I lived every day with that script as if it were going to happen tomorrow. That's the faith you have to have.
Matthew Weiner
#11. The faith-based thing is really important for me. There are certain situations that I would not have been able to make through without the promises He makes and gave for us.
Jordin Sparks
#12. The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues.
John Wycliffe
#13. In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
Carl Bernstein
#14. All effort is in the last analysis sustained by the faith that it is worth making.
Ordway Tead
#15. ROM1.5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
Anonymous
#16. To the extent that we nourish ourselves on Christ and are in love with him, we feel within us the incentive to bring others to him: Indeed, we cannot keep the joy of the faith to ourselves; we must pass it on.
Pope Benedict XVI
#17. When the story gets sad and terrible, when there are too many mistakes to count, hang on for the beautiful parts. Wait for them. Have some faith they'll arrive. This is also precisely the point: the hanging on. The waiting, the faith.
Deb Caletti
#18. Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong ... Prayer requires the faith to believe that God listens.
Philip Yancey
#19. Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are turning their backs on religion. They are walking away from the faith of their parents, and most of this is because religion has failed them.
Myles Munroe
#20. Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman
Louis Pasteur
#21. I am sent to you to confute, not to embrace your heresy. The Catholic religion is the faith of all ages, I fear not death ... Pardon my enemies, O Lord: blinded by passion they know not what they do. Lord Jesus, have mercy on me. Mary, Mother of God, succor me!
Fidelis Of Sigmaringen
#22. 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
#23. And on bad days when you feel like you're stuck on a rock in the middle of nowhere, with no earth beneath you to sink your roots in, and no breeze to push your life forward, reach out to all those who ever gave you love, and believe with the faith of a child.
Sandra Kring
#24. The fundamental religion of most of mankind is the faith that God has revealed Himself to us and not to the barbarians. Our tribe is the one God chose and so if we vanquish the other tribes and rain fire and destruction on them, we're only carrying out God's Will.
Garrison Keillor
#25. What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
Benjamin Cardozo
#26. She is that maze,
the one you would love to chase.
She is the faith,
quite missing nowadays.
And her heart is a rave,
with hopeless barricades.
She is the one,
whose tears flow,
just as lavishly,
as her laughter roars!
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#27. Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.
Jerry B. Jenkins
#28. The secret of making something work in your lives is first of all, the deep desire to make it work; then the faith and belief that it can work; then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.
Eileen Caddy
#29. A devotee's life should be so exemplary that it increases the faith upon other devotees.
Radhanath Swami
#30. Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#31. Moses challenged parents both to teach the faith diligently and to maximize normal encounters or ongoing discussion.
Matt Chandler
#32. The greatest rank for a man is not FD, Defender of the Faith; but it is SD, Scientia Defensor: Defender of the Science!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#33. We are ... living in a free society without the faith that built that society - and without the conviction and dedication needed to sustain it ... We still have the cathedral of freedom but how long will it last without the faith?
Thomas Sowell
#34. We have the deepest respect and reverence for Islam and all who share the faith of Islam.
Jimmy Carter
#35. You're exhausted in the faith because you're looking at you. The more you look at yourself and the less you look at God, the more you get frustrated at yourself.
Matt Chandler
#36. By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
E. O. Wilson
#37. If you are following Deity's plan for you, it isn't always the easy path; sometimes it's the hard one. So why follow? Because to do any less is to betray your own abilities and gifts, and the faith that Deity has in you. Who would do that willingly?
Laurell K. Hamilton
#38. There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth.
Paul Tillich
#39. I don't have the faith now. I certainly believe in Jesus - you know, that he existed and he was a very nice man. And who can disagree with a simple philosophy of treat other people like you'd like to be treated yourself? It's absolutely - nothing I can disagree with that.
Nick Lowe
#40. You can't have any doubt whatsoever when operating in the faith realm. Sometimes the least little
hesitation can allow doubt to override faith. So we mustn't hesitate anytime the Holy Spirit tells/prompts us to act.
Calvin W. Allison
#41. Give me the Love that leads the way The Faith that nothing can dismay The Hope no disappointments tire The Passion that'll burn like fire Let me not sink to be a clod Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God
Amy Carmichael
#42. You may dress an ironman in silks and velvets, teach him to read and write and give him books, instruct him in chivalry and courtesy and the mysteries of the Faith," writes Archmaester Haereg, "but when you look into his eyes, the sea will still be there, cold and grey and cruel.
George R R Martin
#43. I, Henricus Kramer Institoris, Judge named on behalf of the faith, declare and pronounce sentence that you standing here are impenitent heretics, and as such are to be delivered to justice,
Jeaniene Frost
#44. people don't want doctrine, they don't want tracts, and they don't want our feeble arguments; they just want Him! (When will we learn that if people can be argued into the faith, then they can just as easily be argued out of it as well?)
Tommy Tenney
#45. Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.
Walter Lippmann
#46. It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.
Mary Caroline Richards
#47. The faith I have when I am in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament is so strong that I find it impossible to express what I feel ... When the time comes to leave I must force myself to overcome the inclination to prolong my stay with Jesus.
Anthony Mary Claret
#48. A man is enriched by the faith, and if you will by the hope and humility, with which he calls on the most sweet Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ; and he is enriched also by peace and love. For these are truly a three-stemmed life-giving tree planted by God.
Thomas Merton
#49. [...] I have found that there is a rock that supports my faith. But it's a borrowed rock, kind of a sedimentary rock composed in good measure of the faith of others.
Robert W. Griggs
#50. [Her] love and tenderness ... gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones.
Eugene O'Neill
#51. 1Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, + 2speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,
Anonymous
#52. When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me.
Immanuel Velikovsky
#53. The light of truth will cover the world, and eliminate the darkness that, for at the moment, blinds so many from the way. The faith of the faithful will prevail, and those faithful will be united with the Lord Jesus forever.
Calvin W. Allison
#54. The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.
Jonathan Sacks
#56. It just takes the faith of a little seed to make a way through what might to be impossibility, and the ability will match the occasion. The outcome will defy explanation. The liberation will not be televised when it arrives like lightning in the skies.
Josh Garrels
#57. To see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in Him will strengthen the faith of multitudes.
Philip Yancey
#58. A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quickly than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.
Moss Hart
#59. For the greater the love the greater the grief, and the stronger the faith the more savagely will Satan storm its fortress.
C.S. Lewis
#60. I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.
William Wilberforce
#61. My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality." (James 2:1) James
Val Waldeck
#62. The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who suffered on the Cross, Who is present in the Eucharist, and Who rules in Heaven
Pope Pius XII
#63. The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- especially when they do not run counter to the faith- are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down ... The traditions which have been handed down should be regarded as apostolic laws.
St. Jerome
#64. I'm a skeptic of religious systems, not of the faith. Someday I will be happy to discuss the difference with you.
Ted Dekker
#65. The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.
William James
#66. There is only one safeguard against error, and that is to be established in the faith; and for that, there has to be prayerful and diligent study, and a receiving with meekness the engrafted Word of God. Only then are we fortified against the attacks of those who assail us.
Arthur W. Pink
#67. If it were left to us, we would all fall away from the faith and perish.
R.C. Sproul
#68. My work ... is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.
Miguel De Unamuno
#69. Lots of Orthodox go to church every Sunday but don't know much about the faith. Yet they know that there is something that they don't know much about.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
#70. We must acquire the faith to accept the fact that all knowledge is from God and known to God. Knowledge is released to man on earth according to God's plan for him. Free or liberal thinking does not change truth, the revealed knowledge which comes from God.
Delbert L. Stapley
#71. All you have to go on is the faith of a kiss.
Whitney Otto
#72. The 'Always Keep the Faith' tattoo I have on the front represents my desire to protect my beliefs.
Jaejoong
#73. The faith towards God in Christ must be sure and steadfast, that it may solace and make glad the conscience, and put it to rest. When a man has this certainty, he has overcome the serpent; but if he be doubtful of the doctrine, it is for him very dangerous to dispute with the devil.
Martin Luther
#74. We regard it as our duty to declare that Jewish Jerusalem is an organic and inseparable part of the State of Israel, as it is an inseparable part of the history of Israel, of the faith of Israel.
David Ben-Gurion
#75. [The] faith spoken of in the Bible is not a matter of intellectual belief, but a matter of connecting experientially and substantively with the person of Truth, Jesus.
Karla Perry
#77. From bitter searching of the heart,
quickened with passion and with pain
we rise
to play a greater part
this is the faith from which we start.
Leonard Cohen
#78. The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live.
Frank McCourt
#79. This Catholic thing, I think what it does is it makes a place for mystery in a person. And even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where art came in, after that.
Susan Sarandon
#80. Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith. Look well to your state; see whether you be in Christ or not. It is the easiest thing in the world to give a lenient verdict when oneself is to be tried; but O, be just and true here.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#81. Dig anywhere in the earth and you will find a treasure, only you must dig with the faith of a peasant.
Kahlil Gibran
#82. While the official church was moribund, the house churches kept alight the flame of Christian witness. The church survived as a lay movement, often led by poorly educated Bible women who memorized Scripture and passed on the faith to family members and (if they dared) to neighbors and friends.
Kim-Kwong Chan
#83. I meditate and pray all the time. The faith and respect that I have in the power of God in my life is what I've used to keep myself grounded, and it has allowed me to move away from the storms that were in my life.
Halle Berry
#84. It is the image of physical brawn, sheer force, and commanding volume we so often associate with might. But I have found the might of an army exists in the faith of a child and in quiet, earnest prayers as well as in the heart of one who loves.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#85. To be married in our profession is not an easy thing. Theres too many beautiful people around, very interesting people. Its just a matter of really having-being patient and probably having the capacity and the faith of falling in love with your own wife again. That happens to me.
Antonio Banderas
#86. Believe you receive in the faith realm, and you shall have it in the natural realm.
John Osteen
#87. When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech.
Marilyn Manson
#88. At the end of all rationality, there is simply the need to decide and the faith to live through, to endure. Ruth
Ken Liu
#89. I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best!
I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.
Walt Whitman
#90. Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players.
Marv Levy
#91. For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.
Richard Morris
#92. I can't begin to guess her story, except that there were undoubtedly two times or three, when what had happened to her was grievously at odds with what she had expected - so grievously at odds that any return to the faith or the patterns of the time before the event became impossible.
Deirdre McNamer
#93. It is even possible to be a martyr for the Faith and yet not love Jesus Christ.
Oswald J. Smith
#94. 266. "Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of the faith is to see what we believe.
Augustine Of Hippo
#95. It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men believed it ... The fact always precedes the faith.
Billy Graham
#96. The faith by which we live shall never vary in any age ... for one is the faith which sanctifies the Just of all ages.
Pope Leo I
#97. America must dream again, and have the faith to achieve the dream.
Buzz Aldrin
#98. Christians, you and your churches don't get to be millionaires while other people have nothing at all. They're your bloody rules! Either stick to them or abandon the faith.
Marcus Brigstocke
#99. My grandmother studied medicine in the Forties, which was very rare in Egypt, and my mother was a university professor, so my idea of religion wasn't about a woman not working or having to dress in a certain way; it was more to do with the faith.
Leila Aboulela
#100. By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.
William McKinley
