Quotations about Faith

Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer. ~Author Unknown


Faith is like radar that sees through the fog. ~Corrie Ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord


Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right. ~John Donne


Faith is reason grown courageous. ~Sherwood Eddy


Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ~Kahlil Gibran


Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there. ~Author Unknown


If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety. ~Josh Billings, His Complete Works, 1888


Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. ~E.M. Forster


Faith is spiritualized imagination. ~Henry Ward Beecher


Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ~J.R.R. Tolkien


Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. ~David S. Muzzey


Faith is a passionate intuition. ~William Wordsworth


To me faith means not worrying. ~John Dewey


At the point where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. ~Ramona C. Carroll


Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. ~Author Unknown


Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore


He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly. ~B.C. Forbes


A faith of convenience is a hollow faith. ~Father Mulcahy, M*A*S*H, "A Holy Mess," 1982


Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. ~Victor Hugo


Faith makes things possible, not easy. ~Author Unknown


Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us. ~W. Ralph Ward


There must be a tomorrow, because my life overflows today. ~Lois Chartrand


Faith... must be enforced by reason.... When faith becomes blind it dies. ~Mahatma Gandhi


If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. ~Lillian Smith


Sunbeams out of the clouds
Faith out of all my doubt.
~Terri Guillemets


As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. ~Emmanuel


In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. ~Blaise Pascal


To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. ~Carter Lindberg


Weave in faith and God will find the thread. ~Author Unknown


A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul. ~Author Unknown


Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is. ~Colette Baron-Reid


Faith can move mountains, but don't be surprised if God hands you a shovel. ~Author Unknown


Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains.... But it can put mountains where there are none. ~Friedrich Nietzche, Human, All Too Human, 1879


Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. ~George Seaton


Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.


Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future. ~Robert Collyer


Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. ~Author Unknown


As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn't long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. ~George Lancaster Spalding