Faith Quotes

Confusion and doubt are an important part of faith.

~ Ron Brackin

Faith and Doubt cannot reside in the same place; as soon as you have a glimmer of doubt, no matter how much you do, feel, vibrate, and affirm, you are showing the Universe that you do not really believe, you are just ‘trying’ out the concept.

~ Malti Bhojwani

They say in Zen, waking up to life requires three things: great faith, great doubt, and great effort. Faith isn’t a way of going to sleep. It’s the work of waking up. And, in order to wake up, you’ll need both great faith and great doubt. In itself, doubt is neither good nor bad. Its value depends on what you do with it. You can doubt what’s real in order to stay asleep or you can doubt your daydreams in order to wake up. You can use doubt to protect you from the truth or you can use doubt to leave you vulnerable to it. You’ll have doubts regardless. Repurpose them for the sake of faith. Saving doubt is a strong solvent that can burn holes in your [worldview] and lead you back to the work of being faithful to life and, thus, to God. Practicing doubt for the sake of faith is hard work and it demands great effort. Great faith, great doubt, great effort.

~ Adam S. Miller

When the voices of doubt start whispering, turn-up the volume of faith and listen to your heart.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Cherish your doubts, for doubt is the handmaiden of truth.Doubt is the key to the door of knowledge; it is the servant of discovery.A belief which may not be questioned binds us to error,for there is incompleteness and imperfection in every belief.Doubt is the touchstone of truth; it is an acid which eats away the false.Let no man fear for the truth, that doubt may consume it;for doubt is a testing of belief.The truth stands boldly and unafraid; it is not shaken by the testing;For truth, if it be truth, arises from each testing stronger, more secure.He that would silence doubt is filled with fear;the house of his spirit is built on shifting sands.But he that fears no doubt, and knows its use, is founded on a rock.He shall walk in the light of growing knowledge;the work of his hands shall endure.Therefore let us not fear doubt, but let us rejoice in its help:It is to the wise as a staff to the blind; doubt is the handmaiden of truth.

~ Robert T. Weston

In the bitter waves of woe, Beaten and tossed about By the sullen winds that blow From the desolate shores of doubt,­­ When the anchors that faith had cast Are dragging in the gale, I am quietly holding fast To the things that cannot fail: In the darkest night of the year,  When the stars have all gone out,  That courage is better than fear,  That faith is truer than doubt; And fierce though the fiends may fight,  And long though the angels hide, I know that Truth and Right Have the universe on their side; And somewhere, beyond the stars, Is a Love that is better than fate; When the night unlocks her bars I shall see Him, and I will wait

~ Washington Gladden

Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

Doubt is part of searching. Same as faith.

~ Gayle Forman

Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt, or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. And yet I continue to live in a world the way a religious person lives in the world; I keep living in a world that I know to be enchanted, and not left alone. I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.

~ Lauren F. Winner

So answer me, are you merely a cowardly Moses, pointing the way to the Promised Land but poisoned by doubt and so unable to cross the River Jordan?

~ Tony Vigorito

What you must realize, what you must even come to praise, is the fact that there is no right way that is going to become apparent to you once and for all. The most blinding illumination that strikes and perhaps radically changes your life will be so attenuated and obscured by doubts and dailiness that you may one day come to suspect the truth of that moment at all. The calling that seemed so clear will be lost in echoes of questionings and indecision; the church that seemed to save you will fester with egos, complacencies, banalities; the deepest love of your life will work itself like a thorn in your heart until all you can think of is plucking it out. Wisdom is accepting the truth of this. Courage is persisting with life in spite of it. And faith is finding yourself, in the deepest part of your soul, in the very heart of who you are, moved to praise it.

~ Christian Wiman

Faith doesn’t run deep because one is stuffed with right answers. It is cultivated by asking the right questions.

~ Josh Ross

If only I could tell someone.The humiliation I go throughwhen I think of my pastcan only be described as grace.We are created by being destroyed.

~ Franz Wright

And yet when I wish to explore how faith works, I usually sneak in by the back door of doubt, for I best learn about my own need for faith during its absence. God's invisibility guarantees I will experience times of doubt. Everyone dangles on a pendulum that swings from belief to unbelief, back to belief, and ends - where?

~ Philip Yancey

In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right method to tell him to go on doubting , to doubt a little more, to doubt every day newer and wilder things in the universe, until at last, by some strange enlightenment, he may begin to doubt himself.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate.

~ John Henry Newman

But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy, and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts.

~ Will Durant

He said that doubt provided contour to faith, like shading in a drawing, that it allowed you to see what was really there. At the time we were learning how to sketch in art class, I felt like it was the one thing he said that I actually understood.

~ Anna Jarzab

I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Doubt wisely; in strange wayTo stand inquiring right, is not to stray;To sleep, or run wrong, is.

~ John Donne

Don’t waste your most important resource—your life.

~ Elizabeth George

I try to pray everyday or every night to thank my Personal Lord for all that he has given me, all that he is giving me, and all that he will give me.

~ James Hauenstein

Riley had no doubt that an immediate and merciful act of the Almighty had saved them from the surf at Bojador. According to him, all of his men believed this too. Later, when a friend advised him to play down this conviction, because skeptics would use it to discredit the rest of his account of the voyage, Riley refused.

~ Dean King

If the sky has turned a darkened grey and the sea threatens to spill the occupants in the boat, know that the Lord God made the storm still, and though you shall face storms in your life the Lord God will still them with his hand. When you are alone, Jesus will have his arms wrapped around you, holding you tightly, the angels shall call out your name when you feel that you have been deaf, and you shall see the light of Heaven when you think you are blind. When you feel your dreams are broken it does not do well to cast yourself into misery but look at the brighter side of life, and see all the Lord has blessed you with!

~ Ariana Pedigo

Lord Shiva, you my sunshine, my soul, Sivoham.

~ Usha Cosmico

I can look beyond the cloudsto feel your lovethe sun will rise againto end the darkness

~ April Nichole

A nation established under GodA nation that will only winif we stand together

~ April Nichole

Letting goI can have a firm foundationTo honor youAnd hold you in my heart

~ April Nichole

He had forgotten that God saw through the silk robes to the sinful heart, that the only wealth worth having was treasure in heaven, and that even the king had to kneel down in church. Feeling that everyone else was so much more powerful and sophisticated than he was, he had lost sight of his true values, suspended his critical faculties, and placed his trust in his superiors. His reward had been treachery.

~ Ken Follett

These hands will never go awaythey will scoop you up at anytimeanytime that you want to be loved

~ April Nichole

You are my strength when I am weakYou are my shield when I am hurtingWhatever you say unto me LordI will do

~ April Nichole

Look upward to himLook to him for everythingLook to him for answersLook to him for a listening ear

~ April Nichole

Look upward to himLook upward on our goalKeep your eyes on himLook upward to him

~ April Nichole

Knowing that you knew everything about us before we were bornLord, your love is amazing

~ April Nichole

You said one day you would come back for usThe ones that believed in youThe ones that asked you into their heartsThe ones that served you

~ April Nichole

These hands are unlike any otherstrongbut gentlecaringlovingand understanding

~ April Nichole

In another land there is gloryIn another land there is happinessIn another land we all get alongIn another land we will stand with others

~ April Nichole

Today I want to leave the worldI want to leave the painLeave the heartacheI know where it is goingI want to see my Savior

~ April Nichole

To be held in his armsI long for that dayThe da that I get to seemore wonderful things

~ April Nichole

We can hear your voiceWe can hear it through the songs of praiseWe can hear it through the birdsWe can hear it through the windWe can hear your voice in our heartsWe can hear your voice in our mindsWe can hear you through everyhing

~ April Nichole