Faith Quotes

learning to live in the spirit of prayer hour by hour decorates your life with insight and blessings

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

~ Jim Wallis

Even in sin, the act of love -done with love- is shadowed with divinity. Its conformity may be at fault, but its nature is not altered, and its nature is creative, communicative, splendid in surrender. It was in the splendor of my surrender to Nina and she to me, that I first understood how a man might surrender himself to God -if a God existed. The moment of love is a moment of union -of body and spirit- and the act of faith is mutual and implicit.

~ Morris West

The Word of GOD is Superior to the inferior words of men and the words of every false prophet and the teachings of every false religion.

~ Errol Anthony Smythe.

There are times when, that which we wish to be, will come to be, when we let it be.

~ Tom Althouse

There is no need for me to worry, I've already been here somany times and each time I have made it throughalive

~ Michael Dodson Jr.

Don't try to wring out all the answers before you move forward. Faith doesn't work that way. Step into the darkness and the light will appear to guide your next step. It's that first step into the unknown that stops us from progressing.

~ Toni Sorenson

An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God's response.

~ Shannon L. Alder

In some cases abusive or damaged relationships cannot and should not be saved.

~ Toni Sorenson

One might say my life has been tragic. Yet, as I sat in pain in the hospital I raised my tired hands toward the sky, palms facing in, fingers spread, and I gave thanks.

~ Abeba Habtu

This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.

~ Elie Wiesel

Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.

~ Elie Wiesel

A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Many have came before you and many will come after you, but none will ever be you. Some may even try to duplicate your characteristics, but they'll never succeed because you are unique.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

...We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of desire, if religion was no more than self-delusion, what good was life? Faith had always given us answers to all things. But it all went down the drain with Freud and Darwin. We were and still are a lost people.

~ Ray Bradbury

How could she understand it then——that one of her greatest blessings would come only through her greatest wound?

~ Cathy Lagrow

Dear Little Children, don't ever give up on your dreams.

~ Heather Wolf

You don’t need to understand. You need only to obey and then reap the blessings of that obedience.

~ Jim George

Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.

~ John Ortberg

Isn't it the task of the Holy Spirit to introduce some madness and intoxication into the world? Why this propensity for balance and safety? Don't we all long for one moment of raw risk, one moment of divine madness?

~ Ron Rolheiser

God has prepared a path for everyone to follow.

~ Paulo Coelho

The return to the Father from whom all fatherhood takes its name allows me to let my dad be no less than the good, loving, but limited human being he is, and to let my heavenly Father be the God whose unlimited, unconditional love melts away all resentments and anger and makes me free to love beyond the need to please or find approval.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

The reason everything falls apart around me, but I don’t is because my angels keep me standing up.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Surely, the Lord will save us in any situation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

It all begins with goodness in the heart.

~ Bjorn Street

Even if we’ve never been inside a synagogue or a mosque or a church—even if we have, and vowed never to go back—deep down in our striving hearts, beneath all the ambition and the fear, we suspect that we were made for a different sort of life.

~ Heather Choate Davis

There is no such thing as bad luck, it is true only if you believe it to be. Dismiss all negative outlooks that enter your mind. Build your faith. Realize that you attract what you think, believe, and feel the most. It is not the words that create, but the feeling behind the words that has the true power.

~ Jason Micheal Ratliff

What I truly believe, I will achieve.

~ Walter Marin

Sometimes, the risks we take are so extreme that if things didn’t work in our favor, we could lose EVERYTHING for the sake of our faith.

~ D. Nicole Williams

Well, they say there is no real faith without doubt.

~ Lorna Jane Cook

Many have doubts, few voice them. The silent tended to quickly condemn those honest few who air misgivings dormant deep within us all.

~ Sandra Byrd

She never belittled him though she knew the strength of his doubts

~ S.m. Hulse

I would argue that healthy doubt (questioning one's beliefs) is perhaps the best defense against unhealthy doubt (questioning God). When we know how to make a distinction between our ideas about God and God himself, our faith remains safe when one of those ideas is seriously challenged.

~ Rachel Held Evans

There is nothing nominal or lukewarm or indifferent about standing in this hurricane of questions every day and staring each one down until you've mustered all the bravery and fortitude and trust it takes to whisper just one of them out loud

~ Rachel Held Evans

Mine is a stubborn and recalcitrant faith. It's all elbows and motion and kicked-up dust, like cartoon characters locked in a cloudy brawl. I'm still early in my journey, but I suspect it will go on like this for a while, perhaps until my last breath.

~ Rachel Held Evans

Doubt and faith are parts of human experience, whether one views them as right or wrong. Also doubt and faith are instrumental to grasping truth in some very obvious senses.

~ Leviak B. Kelly

do you dare to step in-to the vulnerable black, stripped to the soul with human blindness – when the full and weeping moon steps from the shade of a tumult of mountains – when, in the fragrant dim, day's tree stump transformsinto some nether-worldly other – when time's skin is thin and you arebared – when there is nothing between you and the Wildest Onewhose name is your own?

~ Beth Morey

Doubts are good. It means you are alive and searching. One does not become a believer overnight. He thinks he is a believer; then something happens in his life and he becomes an unbeliever, after that, he becomes a believer again and then an unbeliever again, and so on. Until we reach a certain stage, we constantly waver. This is the only way forward. At each new step, we come closer to the Truth.

~ Elif Shafak

(Meanwhile, other people seem to be getting along with God just fine, very well indeed. Why not me?)

~ Lauren F. Winner