Faith Quotes

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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Dwight L. Moody

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard.

Have faith in your skills. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

Remember that faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

Thomas S. Monson

I respect faith but doubt is what gets you an education.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

William Gurnall

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.

Augustine of Hippo

A faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for: there is all the difference in the world.

Faith and doubt both are needed—not as antagonists but working side by side—to take us around the unknown curve.

All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown
In myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own.

Richard Francis Burton

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colours for those who see none.

Olivier Messiaen

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

Joseph Glanvill

When you choose your friends with caution, plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith, you will merit the companionship of the Holy Spirit.

Thomas S. Monson

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts

Francis Parker Yockey

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we are saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; therefore, we are saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

John Lancaster Spalding

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.