Faith Quotes

Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.

~ Jimmy Carter

I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying, I wish I had watched more TV instead.

~ Peter Kreeft

Forgiveness without understanding is like faith without proof.

~ Jessica Francis Kane

So as I shivered, naked and damp, in front of the bathroom mirror, I raised my eyes skyward. I hope we're still okay.I got no answer, but then, I didn't really expect one. Answer or not, it didn't matter. That's the thing about faith, I guess.

~ Chloe Neill

I guess that's where faith comes in, the faith of a child to believe in Santa, the faith of an adult to believe in God, maybe faith is what makes something real? Maybe Rose had believed enough to create her own afterlife, maybe that's the reward of faith...

~ Gillibran Brown

The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the lessI value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; andas the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently,without asking too many questions.

~ Umberto Eco

You can’t give somebody faith. They either got it or they don’t.

~ Karen Marie Moning

The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given, the weather conditions that prevail at the ...moment.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

The response to war is to live like brothers and sisters. The response to injustice is to share. The response to despair is a limitless trust and hope. The response to prejudice and hatred is forgiveness. To work for community is to work for humanity. To work for peace is to work for a true political solution, it is to work for the Kingdom of God. It is to work to enable every one to live and taste the secret joys of the human person united to the eternal.

~ Jean Vanier

Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity.

~ Kristine Kathryn Rusch

The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said, When Allah loves a people, He tries them.

~ Leila Aboulela

Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among those inclined by temperament or upbringing toward religious pursuits. Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a crucial component of spiritual devotion. And when religious fanaticism supplants ratiocination, all bets are suddenly off.

~ Jon Krakauer

I can't make those two realities -- what I've lost and what I've found -- fit together in some tidy pattern of divine causality. I just have to hold them on the one hand and on the other, just like that.

~ Kate Braestrup

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

~ Alice Walker

Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Спомням си как през летните следобеди, които прекарвах там, баба ми, привършила домашната работа, сядаше до прозореца на светло и вадеше от своя скришен сандък една огромна Библия с твърди корици, обвита с тогавашния официозен вестник Работническо дело по конспиративни причини. Вече знаех, че комунизмът и Библията никак не се обичаха.

~ Georgi Gospodinov

I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.

~ Kate Braverman

As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe the possibility exists.

~ William Salter

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

~ Simone Weil

But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the New Jerusalem: the ability to take our freedom seriously and act on it, to live not in fear of mistakes but in the knowledge that no mistake can hold a candle to the love that draws us home. My repentance, accordingly, is not so much for my failings but for the two-bit attitude toward them by which I made them more sovereign than grace. Grace - the imperative to hear the music, not just listen for errors - makes all infirmities occasions of glory.

~ Robert Farrar Capon

Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular.

~ Brando Skyhorse

Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent love which she had lost and still secretly mourned; from anguished joy over the pale, luminous love which drew her to the farthest boundaries of life on this earth. Through the great darkness that would come, she saw the gleam of another, gentler sun, and she sensed the fragrance of the herbs in the garden at world's end.

~ Sigrid Undset

That the stars guide us, but do not compel us. It is our free will that determines the outcome of all things. God does impose his will on us, rather he makes it known and allows us to choose if we will follow it.

~ Kathleen Mcgowan

Stone, steel, dominions pass,Faith too, no wonder;So leave alone the grassThat I am under.

~ A.e. Housman

Christian hands never claspand He doesn't give gifts for gainbecause a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.

~ Ann Voskamp

Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.

~ Evelyn Waugh

He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.

~ J.c. Ryle

That was the last cruel irony of Tobias’s life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save.

~ Cassandra Clare

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.

~ Desmond Tutu

Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.

~ Matthew Henry

How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

I believe we are more ready to embrace our lives in the here and now when we are able to recognize the continuity between the immanence of God in our world and eternity. Rather than simply waiting to be liberated to another time or place, we are being invited to collaborate in the healing and redemption of our world.

~ Mark Scandrette

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.

~ Frederica Mathewes-Green

Ultimately we have nothing to fear. Jesus loves us, and he invites us to be confident in that love. As we seek to obey Him, we are not called to assess the risk involved and determine whether or not obedience will be beneficial or safe for us. We are simply called to trust and obey.

~ Dan Baumann

The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground.

~ Randy Alcorn

sometime life is full of joy,and sometime life is full of pain and tears but we have to defeat it

~ Meena Khan

Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.

~ Mike Norton

Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place...

~ Joseph Goebbels

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument.

~ Iain Pears