Faith is the function of the heart.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Faith implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.
Faith is the little night-light that burns in a sick-room as long as it is there the obscurity is not complete we turn towards it and await the daylight.
~ Abbe Henri Huvelin
Faith is the summit of the Torah.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Faith is an act of self-consecration in which the will the intellect and the affections all have their place.
~ William Ralph Inge
Faith is courage it is creative while despair is always destructive.
~ David S. Muzzey
Faith is to believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.
~ Lillian Smith
Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.
~ Paul Tillich
Faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is instead an inner force that gives them the strength to face those storms and their consequences with serenity of spirit.
~ Sam J. Ervin
Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket then counting your blessings before they hatch.
~ Ramona C. Carroll
Faith is the force of life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Faith is a kind of betting or speculation.
~ Samuel Butler
Without faith nothing is possible. With it nothing is impossible.
~ Mary Mcleod Bethune
Not truth but faith it is that keeps the world alive.
~ Edna Saint Vincent Millay
Truth is simply whatever you can bring yourself to believe.
~ Alice Childress
You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
~ Helen Keller
The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.
~ Og Guinness
Out of the chill and the shadow Into the thrill and the shine Out of the dearth and the famine Into the fullness divine.
~ Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Faith is necessary to victory.
~ William Hazlitt
Faith is that quality or power by which the things desired become the things possessed.
~ Kathryn Kuhlman
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety or by the handle of faith.
~ Anonymous
Father! Blessed word.
~ Maria S. Cummins
Faith assuages guides restores.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.
~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
We do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if it is not granted to us and then we kneel and believe.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
~ Lucy Ellman
I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.
~ Edwin Arlington Robinson
Faith is the sturdiest the most manly of the virtues. It lies behind our pluckiest... strivings. It is the virtue of the storm just as happiness is the virtue of the sunshine.
~ Ruth Benedict
There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith ... Can you reduce it to practice? If not have none of it.
~ Hosea Ballou
Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Be thou faithful unto death.
~ Bible
Faith is one of the forces by which men live the total absence of it means collapse.
~ William James
Pity the human being who is not able to connect faith within himself with the infinite.... He who has faith has ... an inward reservoir of courage hope confidence calmness and assuring trust that all will come out well-even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
~ B. C. Forbes
Faith is a gift of God.
~ Blaise Pascal
To win true peace a man needs to feel himself directed pardoned and sustained by a supreme power to feel himself in the right road at the point where God would have him be-in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and more rarely sustained contemplation.
~ Aldous Huxley