Faith Quotes

All are free to believe or not believe all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief.
– Jeff Miller
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
– Meryl Streep
After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.
– Martha Gellhorn
After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.
– Wes Bentley
Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
– Irving Babbitt
A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.
– Whittaker Chambers
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.
– Anne Lamott
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.
– Conrad Black
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
– Irving Babbitt
A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
– Xun Zi
A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.
– Robert H. Schuller
A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.
– Phil Donahue
A few years ago you couldn't go from TV to film. It was like a 'no no' but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there's not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you're really standing in the wisdom of God.
– Derek Luke
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
– General Douglas MacArthur
'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.
– Eric Liu
'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.
– Aiden Wilson Tozer
Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
– Lord Acton
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
– Henry B. Adams
Faith is a continuation of reason.
– William Adams
I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
– Henry Adams
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
– Joseph Addison
I have faith in our destinies; a country which is defending itself conquers the respect of all; such a country does not perish!
– King Albert II
The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
– Chris Van Allsburg
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
– Stephen Ambrose
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
– Henri Frederic Amiel
A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ''faith'' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
– W. H. Auden
I fight fairly, and in good faith.
– Edmond About
We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.
– Peter Akinola
I get five anti-Bush emails from my brother Billy everyday. And then I get three voicemails a week saying how's the kids, can I borrow your car next week? After the man with the most faith wins the election, I'll be going over to his house to hang out for barbecues, no problem.
– Stephen Baldwin
I'm here as a result of my faith. I'm here to promote and support the candidate that I think has the most faith.
– Stephen Baldwin
Jesus isn't a logo, I'm not promoting some company, some brand. I'm just professing my faith.
– Stephen Baldwin
We are not trying to reinvent the wheel; we are just trying to bring God and the Bible to the kids in a hard-core way that they can relate to. There is almost nothing out there in the Christian marketplace that the kids can connect with! This same idea holds true in the Mainstream marketplace where the kids will start to see that the faith-based culture can be MORE hard-core.
– Stephen Baldwin
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
– Lucille Ball
To be married in our profession is not an easy thing. There's too many beautiful people around, very interesting people. It's just a matter of really having-being patient and probably having the capacity and the faith of falling in love with your own wife again. That happens to me.
– Antonio Banderas
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
– Albert Bandura
The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.
– Bruce Barton
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
– Jacques Barzun
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Confusing the words wish, faith and pray with each other usually just results in a minor grammatical faux pas, but when any of these words, especially hope, is confused with action, the results are much more devastating.
– Bo Bennett
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
– Georges Bernanos
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
– Ambrose Bierce
The European arguments against the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act demonstrate that some Europeans have never lost faith in appeasement as a way of life. It is clear that Iran is cynically manipulating gullible (or equally cynical) Europeans to advance its development of weapons of mass destruction.
– John Bolton
Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
– Hal Borland
Tennessee is full of families - rich and poor - who manage to achieve balance. They use the resources they have, and add faith in God, love and commitment to each other, hard work and a focus on their children.These are the real families, the families that work, the families that shine. And that balance is the lesson for us.
– Phil Bredesen
Simple and brave, his faith awoke, Ploughmen to struggle with their fate; Armies won battles when he spoke, And out of Chaos sprang the state.
– Robert Bridges
Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious-that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
– Dan Brown
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
– Pearl S. Buck
On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
– Buddha
The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.
– James Lee Burke
Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.
– George W. Bush
You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.
– George H. W. Bush
I have more love in me than not, I have more hope in me than not, and I have more faith than I used to. I just want to get out of the way of what I've been given, so I can do it right.
– Brett Butler
Already at 16, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms - one spiritual, the other earthly.
– Michelangelo
Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
– James Beattie
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
– Ruth Benedict
Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper.
– Henry Brooke
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
– Fred Brooks, Jr.
An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.
– Thomas Brooks
Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.
– Thomas Brooks
A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.
– Vannevar Bush
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.
– Vannevar Bush
There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.
– Eric Butterworth
Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.
– Julia Cameron
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
– Albert Camus
I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved preeminence in money making... certainly never one in manufacturing... who was interested in many concerns.
– Andrew Carnegie
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
– Fidel Castro
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
– William Ellery Channing
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
– G. K. Chesterton
Death came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and loving life of service to others and held such a simple faith, that she had no fears at all and did not seem to mind very much.
– Sir Winston Churchill
To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.
– Emile M. Cioran
All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
– James Freeman Clarke
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
– Joseph Conrad
The New York Times ran a Tom Tomorrow cartoon sneering about Americans who believe with 'unwavering faith in an invisible omniscient deity who favors those born in the middle of the North American land mass.' This is how liberals conceive of America: an undifferentiated land mass in the middle of North America.
– Ann Coulter
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, and we can work.
– Jacques Cousteau
I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a transformer in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.
– Stephen Covey
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
– Aleister Crowley
The world has lost a truly great man. The Pope lived his faith through constantly reaching out, demonstrating that we are all God's children.
– Dave Camp
Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.
– Ramona C. Carroll
If you don't have faith in your people in the field, you are lost. If that faith is blind faith, then it is not faith at all, just maladministration.
– Ray Cave
Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.
– Henry Chester
Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see.
– William Newton Clarke
George W. Bush is a simple-minded but honest man who put too much faith in duplicitous advisors.
– Richard Cohen
An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.
– Donald Cram
A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.
– Alvin Dark
I've lost my faith in science.
– Bette Davis
He [Lincoln] had no faith, in the Christian sense of the term - he had faith in laws, principles, causes and effects.
– David Davis
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
– Richard Dawkins
The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence.
– Jeremiah Day
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
– Benjamin Disraeli
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
– John Foster Dulles
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
– Gail Devers
Ideology in the Soviet Union is both dead, and very much alive! Dead at the level of faith; alive as an indispensable rationale of policy.
– Milovan Djilas
Happiness is the realization of God in the heart. Happiness is the result of praise and thanksgiving, of faith, of acceptance; a quiet tranquil realization of the love of God.
– White Eagle
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.
– Tryon Edwards
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
– George Eliot