Faith Quotes

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Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Georges Bernanos

The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Christopher Fry

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

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

George Whitefield

A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge.

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

Madeleine L'Engle

Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!

His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

We do not want any other god than Germany itself. It is essential to have fanatical faith and hope and love in and for Germany.

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.

In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt.

So long as religion is only faith and outward form, and the religious function is not experienced in our own souls, nothing of any importance has happened.

My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'.

Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.

Therefore, we should devote ourselves as a preparative to preparedness, alike in peace and war, to secure the three elemental things: one, a common language, the English language; two, the increase in our social loyalty citizenship absolutely undivided, a citizenship which acknowledges no flag except the flag of the United States and which emphatically repudiates all duality of intention or national loyalty; and third, an intelligent and resolute effort for the removal of industrial and social unrest, an effort which shall aim equally at securing every man his rights and to make every man understand that unless he in good faith performs his duties he is not entitled to any rights at all.

Theodore Roosevelt

This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.