Faith Quotes

If faith is your motivation, share that.
– Tim Kaine
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
– Muhammad Iqbal
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
– Swami Vivekananda
If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
– Richard Dawkins
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice for all right of private judgment is then denied.
– Charles Hodge
I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.
– Huston Smith
I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.
– Gene Robinson
I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.
– Smokey Robinson
I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
– Ioan Gruffudd
I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.
– Bob Brown
I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this.
– Daniel Radcliffe
I've always had great faith in people.
– Wayne Newton
I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
– Wayne Newton
I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.
– Scott Stapp
I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.
– James McGreevey
I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held.
– Jim Wallis
I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.
– Daniel Libeskind
I'm just glad that my community has faith and confidence in me.
– Charles Rangel
I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey.
– Joanna Trollope
I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.
– Rainn Wilson
I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.
– Tim McGraw
I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.
– Kate Atkinson
I'm a Christian. I go to church when I can. I was raised Baptist. I went to a Lutheran school. I'm a nondenominational practicing Christian. I have a lot of faith.
– Brittany Murphy
I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival.
– Tommy Lee Jones
I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
– Ted Cruz
I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.
– Ethan Hawke
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.
– Patsy Cline
I will always try to share my faith with any person who is willing to listen. When I feel a wall go up, we can talk about something else... and I will pray for you.
– Gloria Gaynor
I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.
– Thomas S. Monson
I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
– Elie Wiesel
I was never the ingenue, so hopefully that'll make it easier to age and still work. I know a lot of actors who are really dissatisfied with where they're at even though some of them are huge stars and I feel like, 'Oh, my God, you're at the top.' Something interesting will come. It always does. I have faith.
– Hope Davis
I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.
– Gael Garcia Bernal
I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame of our common rules of secularism.
– Francois Hollande
I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
– Fantasia Barrino
I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.
– Jesse Helms
I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.
– Michelle Shocked
I try to act out of faith.
– Marian Wright Edelman
I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.
– J. C. Watts
I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.
– Jimmy Carter
I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.
– Rowan Williams
I think the Moslem faith teaches hate.
– Jerry Falwell
I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.
– William P. Leahy
I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations.
– Cliff Stearns
I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
– T. D. Jakes
I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.
– Vera Farmiga
I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
– Judy Collins
I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.
– Jim Wallis
I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.
– Ted Cruz
I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.
– Adam Rickitt
I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
– Rick Moody
I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I'm still playing places for kids.
– Juliana Hatfield
I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.
– Marvin Hamlisch
I still have a belief and a faith that some great things are still going to happen in my career. If I didn't believe that, it makes no sense for me to be out there, and on top of that, I know this is a period of time that God wants me to persevere through.
– Michael Chang
I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.
– Jan Karon
I spent four months in Prague in these blue rooms reacting to nothing and you basically place your faith in the hands of the director and the special effects co-coordinator and you keep your fingers crossed and hope that the creatures look really scary.
– Edward Burns
I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.
– Ted Lange
I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.
– James McGreevey
I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.
– Leverett Saltonstall
I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.
– Willie Stargell
I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.
– Denzel Washington
I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.
– Jim Wallis
I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me.
– Boris Kodjoe
I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
– Yann Martel
I looked at some of the statues of Jesus they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.
– Cat Stevens
I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.
– Ryan Gosling
I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.
– Ernie Harwell
I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.
– Kyle Chandler
I hold that religion and faith are two different things.
– Pat Buckley
I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.
– Armistead Maupin
I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.
– Peter Garrett
I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.
– Selma Blair
I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.
– Edward Norton
I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.
– Mary Ann Mobley
I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
– E. M. Forster
I have never lost my faith in God.
– Maureen O'Hara
I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.
– Madonna Ciccone
I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.
– David Sarnoff
I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.
– Allyson Felix
I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.
– Jim Lehrer
I have faith the men and women of the Coast Guard will immediately rise to the challenge and see the people hit by Katrina through until the storm has truly calmed.
– Dave Reichert
I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.
– Kenneth Lay
I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.
– Al Gore
I have faith in the jury system.
– Nancy Grace
I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.
– Tracey Gold
I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?
– Valerie Bertinelli
I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.
– Andrew Denton
I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.
– Gary Bauer
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
– Clara Barton
I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like 'why?'
– Katy Perry
I have a lot of faith in people.
– John Lithgow
I have a great faith in God and Jesus.
– Ernie Harwell
I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.
– Sloane Crosley
I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.
– John Thune
I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.
– Leah Ward Sears
I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.
– Cat Stevens
I had lost faith in biography.
– A. N. Wilson
I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.
– Wesley Snipes
I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.
– Corazon Aquino
I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.
– Marian Wright Edelman