Faith Quotes

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - A thing which can never be demonstrated.

Tyron Edwards

When a man marries, he has fulfilled half of his faith. So let him remain conscious of God regarding the remaining half.

Mohammed

Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man.... such a man is a true gentleman.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

John McCrae

The faith that stand on authority is not faith.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

Ellen G. White

Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.

Leo Braeck

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Plato

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton Wilde

I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.

Elie Wiesel, O Magazine, November 2000

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

Wilson Mizne

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.

Thomas Jefferson

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.

A. Huxley, Island

All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.

President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Kelle

The primary task of the Church is not to mend the manners of the community, but to proclaim the matchless Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. When men hear that Gospel and believe it, their lives will give evidence of their faith.

Walter Dale Langtry

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Swami Sivanada

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

D. Elton Trueblood

Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.

Philip Gulley

The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is know, but to question it.

Jacob Chanowski

Vision looks inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

Stephen S. Wise

But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

1 Timothy 611 Bible

I have great faith in fools - - Self confidence my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Dean Koontz

A faithful friend is a strong defense and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.

Ecclesiasticus 614 Bible

His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.

Jacques Cousteau

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - - No wonder, then, that I return the love.

Soren Kierkegaard

You are not made happy by the true things you believe from your faith, but by the goodness which comes from your faith.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Arcana Coelestia" #4984

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Henry Ward Beeche

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.

Benjamin Franklin

Faith, Hope, and Love remanined. And the greatest of these is Love.

1 Corinthians 13: 13, 1 Corinthians 13: 13

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

Mark Twain

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

Clive Staples Lewis

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville