Faith Quotes

Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see (Heb. 11:1). We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We believe in peace even though we hear only rumours of wars. And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

~ Shane Claiborne

To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ.

~ Dwight L. Moody

We can follow a steady upward course in a world of change without fear, welcoming opportunities

~ Henry B. Eyring

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgement and effort to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

~ Ann Voskamp

Spiritual pain is when you can’t stand another moment not knowing the real truth, and when you finally do know you can’t let go.

~ Shannon L. Alder

practice only envisioning yourself at the finish line and be unrelenting and fervent in racing towards that finish line. Undue preoccupation and fixation with the how's, whens, and what ifs will not only derail and further distance you from your destination, but will also feed your mind with those fatal seeds of doubt that make failure inevitable ~ Awaken and Unleash your Victor

~ Ogor Winnie Okoye

In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.

~ Teresa Of Ávila

Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of such idolatry - but not if it means holding faith in the right way, that is, not holding it at all but being held by God, in love and service. Theology is idolatry if it means what we say about God instead of letting ourselves be addressed by what God has to say to us. Faith is idolatrous if it is rigidly self-certain but not if it is softened in the waters of 'doubt.

~ John D. Caputo

God doesn't expect us to be a walking encyclopedia of biblical knowledge. He wants us to know Him, to be in a relationship with Him. This means not only hearing but allowing our understanding of God to change the way we live. Like the wise builder who laid the foundation of his house on the rock, we learn to let our knowledge of God change us.

~ Tyler Edwards

You will never get everything in life but you will get enough.

~ Sanhita Baruah

I see it in your eyes as I see it in hers. Remember, there is always light where there is love and if that is what is meant to happen between the two of you, then it was destined.

~ L.g. Castillo

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

~ Craig Thompson

Your faith was strong, but you needed proof...

~ Leonard Cohen

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves not only for what you are now but for what you have the power to become. Trust in the Lord as He leads you along. He has things for you to do that you won't know about now but that will unfold later. If you stay close to Him, You will have some great adventures. You will live in a time where instead of sometimes being fulfilled, many of them will actually be fulfilled. The Lord will unfold your future bit by bit.

~ Neal A. Maxwell

The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.

~ Sam Harris

There is no one true church, no one chosen people.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

~ Paulo Coelho

Remember, an easy question can have an easy answer. But a hard question must have a hard answer. And for the hardest questions of all, there may be no answer - except faith.

~ Charles Sheffield

Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203)

~ Janice Hanna

We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.

~ Philip Yancey

Faith is simply whatever is real to us.

~ Elizabeth Kostova

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

~ John Paul Ii

This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.

~ Kathleen Norris

But we have seen how brightly light shines in the dark, how sweetly music fills the quiet. All these years you have known only shadow and silence, and we have so much to show you. To save you.We are all worth saving.We cannot ever know, not truly.But we have faith.

~ Amie Kaufman

Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.

~ C.s. Lewis

The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right thing to do. Don't let it down on them that to the Enemy what they feel is inconsequential. His moral laws don't give a rip about how any of them feel. The sludgebags have no more power to vote them in and out of existence than they have power to revoke the law of gravity.

~ Randy Alcorn

I believe in free will. I think we make our own decisions and carry out or own actions. And our actions have consequences. The world is what we make it. But I think sometimes we can ask God to help us and He will.

~ Michael Grant

What I admire about the modern atheist is not at all his logic, but rather his gift of imagination. There will always be the cartoon versions of Christianity further perpetuated by the extremist atheists who do not possess the humility to ask real scholars and theologians its difficult questions. There is little doubt that the atheist has the bigger imagination: the first reason is due to his persistent caricatures of what constitutes a Christian; the second because of his belief that most of his questions are actually rhetorical. From this I can infer that, instead of laughing at one another (the Christian at modern atheist immaturity and the modern atheist at Christian stupidity), we would have a better chance at productivity laughing with one another as we all dumb down what we don't understand.

~ Criss Jami

What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?.

~ Barry Lyga

We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.

~ Patti Smith

It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

For centuries the church has stood by while science picked away at religion bit by bit. Debunking miracles. Training the mind to overcome the heart. Condemning religion as the opiate of the masses. They denounce God as a hallucination - a delusional crutch for those too weak to accept that life is meaningless. I could not stand by while science presumed to harness the power of God himself! Proof, you say? Yes, proof of science's ignorance! What is wrong with the admission that something exists beyond our understanding? The day science substantiates God in a lab is the day people stop needing faith!

~ Dan Brown

[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.

~ Sam Harris

You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that you’ve got one you’re trying to argue it away. People who don’t believe in miracles shouldn’t pray for them.

~ David Wilkerson

The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

~ George Eliot

This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.

~ Ann Voskamp

Trusting God's grace means trusting God's love for us rather than our love for God. […] Therefore our prayers should consist mainly of rousing our awareness of God's love for us rather than trying to rouse God's awareness of our love for him, like the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:26-29).

~ Peter Kreeft

Faith requires following the power of a whisper.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When you SEE into the invisible, you will DARE to do the impossible!

~ John Paul Warren