Top 100 Faith Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best faith quotes ever written, picked out of the full faith archive on QuoteForever. You will find George W. Bush, Denzel Washington, Aiden Wilson Tozer and Blaise Pascal among them.

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Christianity is not a message which has to be believed, but an experience of faith that becomes a message.

2

The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven. Take your pick.

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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.

4

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

5

Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.

6

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

7

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.

8

True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.

9

Let God be true but every man a liar" is the language of true faith

10

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

11

Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all the other spiritual exercises of the day. True, Our Lord hears our prayers anywhere, for He has made the promise, 'Ask, and you shall receive,' but He has revealed to His servants that those who visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament will obtain a more abundant measure of grace.

12

No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God.

13

He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.

14

From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still lives, that God still observes, ... still reigns. Faith is now in the crucible, it is being tested by fire, and there is no fixed... resting place for the heart and mind but in the Throne of God. What is needed now, as never before, is a full, positive, constructive setting forth of the Godhood of God.

15

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

16

Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

17

To me, success is one's ability to keep the faith, develop his God-given talents, and be able to honestly say at the close of life, "the world is a better place because I have lived."

18

Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.

19

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

20

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

21

What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.

22

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

23

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

24

Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.

25

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.

26

Reconciliation always brings a springtime to the soul.

27

It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and darkness before Time began, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and death itself would work backwards.

28

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

29

By his own will Christ was dependent on Mary during Advent: he was absolutely helpless; he could go nowhere but where she chose to take him; he could not speak; her breathing was his breath; his heart beat in the beating of her heart.... In the seasons of our Advent - waking, working, eating, sleeping, being - each breath is a breathing of Christ into the world.

30

It is a time of darkness, of faith. We shall not see Christ's radiance in our lives yet; it is still hidden in our darkness; nevertheless, we must believe that He is growing in our lives; we must believe it so firmly that we cannot help relating everything, literally everything, to this almost incredible reality.

31

Faith allows us to enter peacefully into the dark night which faces every one of us at one time or another.

32

Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly.

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Make us eternal truths receive, And practice all that we believe: Give us thyself, that we may see The Father and the Son, by thee.

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It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea. On points of the highest interest, the moment we quit the light of revelation we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately connected with Pyrrhonism, and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt.

35

If we have no faith in ourselves and in the kind of future we can create together, we are fit only to follow, not to lead. Let us remember that the Bible contains two proverbs we cannot afford to forget. The first is ""Man does not live by bread alone"" and the second is ""Where there is no vision, the people perish.""

36

When we arrive at dilemmas in life and we are unable to decipher the right direction to go, if we hope to maintain our confidence in the process, we must (repeat must) allow the Lord to be our Guide, our Strength, our Wisdom - our all!

37

It cannot be too strongly asserted that the insistence on blind, unreasoning faith is due mainly to the maintenance of a subject-matter upon which there was no knowledge, namely the 'other world'; and that this basis was assumed because of early man's preoccupation with death. It is, unfortunately, quite possible to believe a thing which is contradicted by facts, especially if the facts are not generally known; but if the whole position on which we rested our religions had been visibly opposed by what we did know, even the unthinking masses would, in time, have noticed it.

38

Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road. Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Blessed be you, my God, for having created me.

39

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

40

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

41

For the sacrificed, in the hour of sacrifice, only one thing counts: faith-alone among enemies and skeptics. Faith, in spite of the humiliation which is both the necessary precondition and the consequence of faith, faith without any hope of compensation other than he can find in a faith which reality seems so thoroughly to refute.

42

It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown.

43

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

44

I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of God in order to preserve a just and stable society than we needed to cling to the Gold Standard to keep our currency sound. It was a useful crutch, but we've outgrown it. Denmark, according to a recent study, is the sanest, healthiest, happiest, most crime-free nation in the world, and by and large the Danes simply ignore the God issue. We should certainly hope that those who believe in belief are wrong, because belief is waning fast, and the props are beginning to buckle.

45

Love, desire, ambition, faith - without them, life's so simple, believe me.

46

Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

47

What is needed to attain happiness is not a comfortable life, but a heart in love, such as Christ's.

48

I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.

49

All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.

50

He knows what He is doing with me. I cannot always understand His way, but I am content in the realization that He knows what is best. That is surrender.

51

I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic make-up, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question.

52

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

53

You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.

54

When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.

55

As long as I have my faith in God, I'm good. I know everything else is going to come.

56

Don't downgrade your dream to match your reality. Upgrade your faith to match your destiny.

57

If I embrace who I am it will open doors not shut them. If your faith won't fit in the door that opens then I argue do not walk through that door. The door that God has opened for you will fit your faith.

58

We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.

59

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

60

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

61

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

62

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

63

Without God at the beginning, there can be only confusion at the end.

64

However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.

65

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

66

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

67

When you say "Yes" to something, you include something you do want in your experience. When you say "No" to something, you include something you don't want in your experience.

68

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.

69

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation.

70

We are not masochists - the cross is not an end in itself; it is for glory. We Christians are not looking for suffering, but for joy. God, living in joy, wanted to communicate it to all people. This is why he sent it down into our misery, nailing it to the cross. At that point, the cross became the way toward joy. Christianity is not at all morality and prohibitions - first and foremost it is wonder before things.

71

I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God.

72

True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity

73

Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.

74

Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.

75

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

76

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

77

Grace is something you can never get but only be given.

78

There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.

79

Faith is a gift-but you can ask for it.

80

Let us be servants in order to be leaders.

81

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

82

The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food, like the wind overcomes a rotten tree. But the Tempter cannot master a man who dwells on the distasteful side of things, self-controlled in his senses, moderate in eating, resolute and full of faith, like the wind cannot move a mountain crag.

83

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

84

Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.

85

Nothing we learn about the universe threatens our faith. It only enriches it.

86

A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism.

87

Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills - neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action

88

Faith is obedience, not compliance.

89

Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it.

90

At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people; nurture the belief that they can do things.

91

I believe that God wants me to be president.

92

We Americans have faith in ourselves, but not in ourselves alone. We do not know-we do not claim to know all the ways of Providence, yet we can trust in them, placing our confidence in the loving God behind all of life, and all of history.

93

I do believe in the sanctity of marriage. ...But I don't see that as conflict with being a tolerant person or an understanding person.

94

My faith plays a big part in my life. And when I was answering that question what I was really saying to the person was that I pray a lot. And I do. And my faith is a very, it's very personal. I pray for strength. I pray for wisdom. I pray for our troops in harm's way. I pray for my family. I pray for my little girls.

95

Freedom is on the march in this world. I believe everybody in the Middle East desires to live in freedom. I believe women in the Middle East want to live in a free society. I believe mothers and fathers want to raise their children in a free and peaceful world. I believe all these things, because freedom is not America's gift to the world, freedom is the almighty God's gift to each man and woman in this world.

96

I think it's important to promote a culture of life. I think a hospitable society is a society where every being counts and every person matters. I believe the ideal world is one in which every child is protected in law and welcomed to life. I understand there's great differences on this issue of abortion. But I believe reasonable people can come together and put good law in place that will help reduce the number of abortions.

97

We're not going to spend taxpayers' money on abortion. This is an issue that divides America. But certainly reasonable people can agree on how to reduce abortions in America.

98

I will always stand firm to protect the sanctity of marriage. I believe it is important to work with people to find common ground on difficult issues.

99

It is the government's strong desire to empower this fabric, this social fabric of our society where faith-based programs large and small feel empowered, encouraged, and welcomed into changing lives.

100

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

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