Faith Quotes

If I spelled out the Principles of FaithI would be barking on the moon.

~ Leonard Cohen

Do not fear the conflict, do not flee it. Where there is no struggle, there is no virtue; where faith and love are not tempted, it is not possible to be sure whether they are really present. They are proved and revealed in adversity, that is, in difficult and grievous circumstances, both outward and inward - during sickness, sorrow, or privations

~ John Of Kronstadt

As a Christian, your godly life and your godly mothering sends its shimmering wake throughout all eternity.

~ Elizabeth George

Faith is Hope on a treadmill. Love is the reason we stay on.

~ Solange Nicole

Faith is a state of constant examination and openness. In faith we must be vulnerable. Only in this seeming weakness do we live with God.

~ Max Gladstone

The gods whispered to you once, Finnikin. And you listened. But they are proud and refuse to speak to those who do not believe that there is something out there mightier than the minds and intellect of mortals.

~ Melina Marchetta

I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods.

~ Salman Rushdie

Nobody can turn you into a slave unless you allow them. Nobody can make you afraid of anything, unless you allow them. Nobody can tell you to do something wrong, unless you allow them. God never created you to be a slave, man did. God never created division or set up any borders between brothers, man did. God never told you hurt or kill another, man did. Why is man your god and not the Creator?

~ Suzy Kassem

...every god serves a purpose and every faith fills a need.

~ Michael G. Williams

I wish for today and dream of yesterday. If the gods should hold me in their favor, then I shall hope for tomorrow.

~ Nadège Richards

Like the lotus flower, business blooms in the mud, and in the dark of night. The lotus is an amazing creation of God, because for all of its beauty, it is the sum total of work performed in a mess. It is also a creation that has the ability to create seeds in its habitat for a very long time without help from human hands. The lotus has the ability to survive beyond the mercurial nature of weather (storms, frost). The lotus is one strong, powerful, and resilient flower that blossoms in a substance (mud) that none of us would want to touch.

~ Robin Caldwell

In the realm of faith, there is no fear.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes you just have to tell your fear to kiss your ass.

~ Junnita Jackson

...don't be afraid to fall. Your wings will catch you.

~ Katie Kacvinsky

If we want a miracle, we’ve got to surrender all our faith.

~ Toni Sorenson

Dew settles without the fanfare of thunder or patter of falling rain, yet our wet feet in the morning still tell us there is something there. Sometimes miracles are like that. There is no overwhelming proof, but deep inside we know.

~ Chris Stewart

Faith isn't hearing the voice of God. It's listening and hearing nothing, but moving toward the miracle anyway. God hears us even when we don't hear him. Knowing that requires real faith.

~ Toni Sorenson

Maybe He’s already given you a miracle. You just can’t see it.

~ Rachelle Ayala

Actually, the “leap of faith”—to give it the memorable name that Soren Kierkegaard bestowed upon it—is an imposture. As he himself pointed out, it is not a “leap” that can be made once and for all. It is a leap that has to go on and on being performed, in spite of mounting evidence to the contrary. This effort is actually too much for the human mind, and leads to delusions and manias. Religion understands perfectly well that the “leap” is subject to sharply diminishing returns, which is why it often doesn’t in fact rely on “faith” at all but instead corrupts faith and insults reason by offering evidence and pointing to confected “proofs.” This evidence and these proofs include arguments from design, revelations, punishments, and miracles. Now that religion’s monopoly has been broken, it is within the compass of any human being to see these evidences and proofs as the feeble-minded inventions that they are.

~ Christopher Hitchens

JUST BECAUSE A BUNCH OF ATHEISTS ARE BETTER WRITERS THAN THE GUYS WHO WROTE THE BIBLE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE THEM RIGHT! [Owen Meany] said crossly. LOOK AT THOSE WEIRDO TV MIRACLE-WORKERS--THEY'RE TRYING TO GET PEOPLE TO BELIEVE IN MAGIC! BUT THE REAL MIRACLES AREN'T ANYTHING YOU CAN SEE--THEY'RE THINGS YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE WITHOUT SEEING. IF SOME PREACHER'S AN ASSHOLE, THAT'S NOT PROOF THAT GOD DOESN'T EXIST!

~ John Irving

The resurrection cannot be tamed or tethered by any utilitarian test. It is a vast watershed in history, or it is nothing. It cannot be tested for truth; it is the test of lesser truths. No light can be thrown on it; its own light blinds the investigator. It does not compel belief; it resists it. But once accepted as fact, it tells more about the universe, about history, and about man's state and fate that all the mountains of other facts in the human accumulation.

~ Life Magazine

Why are you all quarrelling about whether certain miracles were or were not performed nineteen centuries ago in Palestine? Why must you be certain of those particular miracles, before you can believe in God? To-day, at this very moment, you are surrounded by miracles. Birth, death, sunrise, springtime, winter—are not all these miracles? You have forgotten them because you see them every day. In your silly self-conceit, you assure yourselves that all this is perfectly natural, and that science has long ago explained it all—but you forget that your science has only noted the existence of these miracles, and that their secret belongs as much as ever to the Almighty Ruler of the Universe in whom you find it so difficult to believe.

~ Aimée Dostoyevsky

Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir.

~ Michael Chabon

When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.

~ Craig Groeschel

It’s not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Faith is a firm hope.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Any accomplishment is possible with God’s grace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A daily portion is all that a man really wants. We do not need tomorrow's supplies; that day has not yet dawned, and its wants are as yet unborn. The thirst which we may suffer in the month of June does not need to be quenched in February, for we do not feel it yet; if we have enough for each day as the days arrive we shall never know want.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

~ Randy Alcorn

Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.

~ William Arthur Ward

I can share my dreams, and even encourage you along the way, but you have to have your own dreams. You have to want for something, and work towards it. Don't give up in when you feel overwhelmed, undeserving or unprepared. He has given you the gift(s) you will need. If you remember that, fear will have no place to reside.

~ J'son M. Lee

A giant once lived in that body. But Matt Brady got lost. Because he was looking for God too high up and too far away.

~ Jerome Lawrence

He weighs the volume in his hand; this one has been the center of the whirlwind. Then DRUMMOND notices the Bible on the JUDGE's bench. He picks up the Bible in his other hand; he looks from one volume to the other, balancing them thoughtfully, as if his hands were scales. He half-smiles, half-shrugs. Then DRUMMOND slaps the two books together and jams them in his brief case, side by side. Slowly, he climbs to the street level and crosses the empty square.

~ Jerome Lawrence

Why? Because I refuse to erase a man's lifetime? I tell you Brady had the same right as Cates: the right to be wrong!

~ Jerome Lawrence

You must dare the impossible.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.

~ Matthew Knisely

Collect moments rather than things. Moments get away.

~ Matthew Knisely

Let’s not only take great photos, but let’s make great photos with our lives.

~ Matthew Knisely

Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.

~ Matthew Knisely

If we continually let go of the moments, we let go of who we are and we lose ourselves.

~ Matthew Knisely