Faith Quotes

God never said that we wouldn’t have unfair situations, that we wouldn’t experience loss. But He promised if we would stay in faith, He would restore everything that was stolen.

~ Joel Osteen

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

~ Criss Jami

Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.

~ Tariq Ramadan

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

~ Colleen Mccullough

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

~ C.g. Jung

Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?

~ Dan Brown

I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end.

~ Evelyn Waugh

They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.

~ G.k. Chesterton

When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.

~ Evelyn Waugh

The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the smaller insecurities take care of themselves. But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potential moral units- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coat-tails.

~ John Steinbeck

Matthew 10:34“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

~ Anonymous

I asked myself what I believed. I had never prayed a lot. I hoped hard, wished hard, but I didn't pray. I had developed a certain distrust of organised religion growing up, but I felt I had the capacity to be a spiritual person, and to hold some fervent beliefs. Quite simply, I believed I had a responsibility to be a good person, and that meant fair, honest, hardworking and honorable. If I did that, if I was good to my family, true to my friends, if I gave back to my community or to some cause, if I wasn't a liar, a cheat, or a thief, then I believed that should be enough. At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptised.

~ Lance Armstrong

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.

~ Criss Jami

All you have to go on is the faith of a kiss.

~ Whitney Otto

The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a point, then to nothing. Pride is such a snake, and envy, and greed. Love, however, is a hoop, a wheel, that rolls on forever. We are rescued by those whom we have rescued. The saved become the saviors of their saviors.

~ Dean Koontz

Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.

~ Joni Eareckson Tada

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

~ Beth Moore

To truly try means to accept God's love, his healing, to accept the world can be ugly, but your heart doesn't have to be. It takes courage, Finley the warrior. You haven't held on to your anger and bitterness in search of healing, but as a banner of your hurt. Because it's real and visible and strong, she said. But so is God's love and so are those arms he's holding out for you.

~ Jenny B. Jones

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

~ Gregory Peck

My nature has always been to fight. My faith forces me to forgive.

~ Cindy Martinusen Coloma

A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive.

~ J.s.b. Morse

You can’t confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.

~ John F. Macarthur Jr.

Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?

~ Mother Teresa

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…

~ Knut Hamsun

Maybe that's why life is so precious. No rewind or fast forward...just patience and faith.

~ Cristina Marrero

Guys like him, the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side. Always going too far the other way, fighting for the Lord, often just because it gives them an excuse to fight.

~ David Wong

Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.

~ Donald Miller

Although, I admit, I desire,Occasionally, some backtalkFrom the mute sky, I can't honestly complain:A certain minor light may stillLean incandescentOut of kitchen table or chairAs if a celestial burning tookPossession of the most obtuse objects now and then --

~ Sylvia Plath

there comes a timewhen you have to let goall the wordsall the teachingand trust the infinite

~ Billy Doyle

Allah tests our patience and our fortitude. He tests out strength of faith. be patient and there will endless rewards for you, insha'Allah - Utaz Badr

~ Leila Aboulela

We see them as they cannot, will not, see each other--we see his heart in the way he looks at her; we see her soul calling out for his every touch. It would be so easy if they could only see inside each other as we can.And yet, there is beauty in the way they find each other: slowly, in a fragile dance of sidelong glances and accidental touches. To see them come together, souls binding without knowing each other as we do, without being certain of what the other's heart holds, is to learn something new...Faith.

~ Amie Kaufman

To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake that area of darkness that clings to you, always shaped like you, as if constantly to remind you of yourself? You can’t. This shadow is doubt. And it goes wherever you go as long as you stay in the sun. And who wouldn’t want to be in the sun?

~ Yann Martel

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

~ Dan Brown

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.

~ William Peter Blatty

Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives tradition such a bad name.

~ Jaroslav Pelikan

I'm not a Wiccan. I'm not big on churches of any kind, despite the fact that I've spoken, face-to-face, with an archangel of the Almighty.But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine.Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others--even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.Faith is a power of its own, and one even more elusive and difficult to define than magic.

~ Jim Butcher