Faith Quotes

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

William M. Evarts

Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Saint Augustine

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

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H. 96, ll. 11 - 12.

Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - A desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will - But faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world - Faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.

George Frost Kennan

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people - Nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations - Have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realization of a political ideal it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

John Dalberg

Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.

Arthur Miller, The Crucible, act II

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

Brigitte Bardot

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Samuel Butle

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Seoul Mates, 1991

Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Proverbs 276 Bible

Faith without works is dead.

Bible

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

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

Eric Hoffe

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

Charles Fillmore

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

H. L. Mencken

If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Leo Braeck

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

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

1 Corinthians 13: 13, 1 Corinthians 13: 13

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

Reinhold Niebuh

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Plato

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

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

Woody Allen

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

Thornton Wilde

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

Helen Kelle

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

Philip Gulley

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.

Thomas H. Huxley

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.

Charles Hodge

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Norman Vincent Peale

A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Henry Christopher Bailey

So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.

Alfred Austin

Faith is not the knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.

Rabbi David Wolpe