There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment, but there is no such a word in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the way of God.
—John Newton (1725–1807) English Clergyman, Writer
Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.
—Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) American Christian Theologian
No man hates God without first hating himself.
—Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) American Catholic Religious Leader, Theologian
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
—Thomas Aquinas (1225–74) Italian Catholic Priest, Philosopher, Theologian
If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
—Jacques Cousteau (1910–97) French Oceanographer, Documentary Director
The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required blood and sweat and tears.
—Charles F. Kettering (1876–1958) American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Businessperson
Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
—Voltaire (1694–1778) French Philosopher, Author
It’s only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
—A. W. Tozer (1897–1963) American Christian Pastor, Preacher, Author, Editor
God delays but doesn’t forget.
—Spanish Proverb
If I could choose what of all things would be at the same time the most delightful and useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for this makes life a discipline of goodness; creates new hopes when all earthly ones vanish; throws over the decay of existence the most gorgeous of all lights; awakens life even in death; makes even torture and shame the ladder of ascent to paradise; and far above all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of the future, the security of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the skeptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair.
—Humphry Davy (1778–1829) British Chemist, Inventor
My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744) English Poet
It is useless to tell me not to reason but to believe—you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.
—John Henry Newman (1801–90) British Theologian, Poet
We live by Faith; but Faith is not the slave
Of text and legend. Reason’s voice and God’s,
Nature’s and Duty’s, never are at odds.
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–92) American Quaker Poet, Abolitionist
For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.
—Bruce Fairchild Barton (1886–1967) American Author, Advertising Executive, Politician
‘Faith’ means not wanting to know what is true
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
I’ve never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith – it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.
—Robert A. Heinlein (1907–88) American Science Fiction Writer
The kingdom of God is within you.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
A man of courage is also full of faith.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909–1966) Polish Aphorist, Poet
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
—Henry Miller (1891–1980) American Novelist
The steps of faith fall on the seeming void, but find the rock beneath.
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–92) American Quaker Poet, Abolitionist
Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
—Frederick Buechner (b.1926) American Presbyterian Clergyman, Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist, Theologian
To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.
—Louis L’Amour (1908–88) American Novelist, Short-story Writer
Faith will move mountains.
—Common Proverb
I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it’s the right move.
—Robert H. Schuller (1926–2015) American Christian Televangelist, Author
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
—Laozi (fl.6th Century BCE) Chinese Philosopher, Sage
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
—James Russell Lowell (1819–91) American Poet, Critic
Not Truth, but Faith, it is
That keeps the world alive.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American Poet, Playwright, Feminist
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.
—Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
—Helen Keller (1880–1968) American Author
Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
—Viktor Frankl (1905–97) Austrian Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist
Ignorance as to unrevealed mysteries is the mother of a saving faith; and understanding in revealed truths is the mother of a sacred knowledge.—Understand not therefore that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand.—Understanding is the wages of a lively faith, and faith is the reward of an humble ignorance.
—Francis Quarles (1592–1644) English Religious Poet
Faith is the root of all blessings. Believe, and you shall be saved; believe, and you must needs be satisfied; believe, and you cannot but be comforted and happy.
—Jeremy Taylor
We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.
—James Anthony Froude (1818–94) British Historian, Novelist, Biographer, Editor
Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.
—Unknown
Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.
—Unknown
What we wish, that we readily believe.
—Demosthenes (384–322 BCE) Greek Statesman, Orator
Faith, and belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist
Faith is one of the forces by which men live; the total absence of it means collapse.
—William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician
Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
With each success your faith in the law will grow stronger, until you reach the point of total conviction. Then you will be invincible.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter, Writer
In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
—David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973) Russian-born Israeli Head of State
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
—George Sand (1804–76) French Novelist, Dramatist