Faith Quotes

The deep roots never doubt spring will come.

~ Marty Rubin

The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim toward that which is difficult. You abandon your comforting and familiar habits with the hope (the mere hope!) that something greater will be offered you in return for what you have given up.. if we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be.. a prudent insurance policy.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for you to stand upon or you will be taught to fly.

~ Patrick Overton

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

~ Frederick Buechner

I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.

~ Emily Giffin

Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life.

~ Mother Teresa

Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as something goes wrong, that kind of love can fly out the window.

~ Mitch Albom

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

~ Stanisław Lem

A few songs with Him might change the way you sing. Forever.

~ Max Lucado

Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.

~ Sam Harris

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

~ Aberjhani

True faith manifests itself through our actions.

~ Francis Chan

The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the will to try it and the faith to believe it is possible.

~ Rich Devos

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.

~ Aberjhani

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

~ Richard Dawkins

There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?

~ Robert A. Heinlein

I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my heavenly Father nor a sappy spirituality that portrays God as such a benign teddy bear that there is no aberrant behavior or desire of mine that he will not condone. I want a relationship with the Abba of Jesus, who is infinitely compassionate with my brokenness and at the same time an awesome, incomprehensible, and unwieldy Mystery.

~ Brennan Manning

It must be comforting, to have a faith like that. To believe so concretely that there’s someone—something— out there watching guard, keeping us safe, testing us only with what we can handle.

~ Hannah Harrington

Faith is not so much something we believe, faith is something we live.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

~ Martin Luther

Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find Mary Poppins.

~ Steve Kluger

I learned that the search for God is a Dark Night, that Faith is a Dark Night. And that’s hardly a surprise really, because for us each day is a dark night. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, and yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

~ Paulo Coelho

Leap, and the net will appear.

~ Julia Cameron

We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation, he is unworthy even of man.

~ Sam Harris

Nobody wants to look like a fool. Nine times out of ten, thatreason alone keeps people from allowing themselves to believe.

~ Darynda Jones

Challenge a person's beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith, they are chronically fragile. No one gets upset about the belief that rocks fall down as opposed to up, because all sane people can see it with their own eyes. Not so for the belief that babies are born with original sin or that God exists in three persons or that Ali is the second-most divinely inspired man after Muhammad. When people organize their lives around these beliefs, and then learn of other people who seem to be doing just fine without them--or worse, who credibly rebut them--they are in danger of looking like fools. Since one cannot defend a belief based on faith by persuading skeptics it is true, the faithful are apt to react to unbelief with rage, and may try to eliminate that affront to everything that makes their lives meaningful.

~ Steven Pinker

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

~ H.g. Wells

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

~ William James

What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure?

~ Brandon Sanderson

But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.

~ Louie Giglio

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility faith!(Institutio III.2.3)

~ John Calvin

Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue’s awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen this place as magical, but Gansey and Blue’s wonder made it holy.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'.

~ Russell Brand

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

~ Blaise Pascal

The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith.

~ Anaïs Nin

There’s something really cool about knowing that your destiny is SO big that you’re not meant to share it with anyone. At least not yet.

~ Mandy Hale

I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation.

~ Robert E. Lee

When you are down to nothing, God is up to somethng. It is up to you to reach out to find what God is up to for you.

~ Robert Schuler