According to your faith; be it done unto you.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
Faith is a certain image of eternity. All things are present to it—things past, and things to come; it converses with angels, and antedates the hymns of glory. Every man that hath this grace is as certain there are glories for him, if he perseveres in duty, as if he had heard and sung the thanksgiving song for the blessed sentence of doomsday.
—Jeremy Taylor
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
—Simone Weil (1909–1943) French Philosopher, Political Activist
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
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
—Augustine of Hippo (354–430) Roman-African Christian Philosopher
Hurry is a manifestation of fear; he who fears not has plenty of time. If you at with perfect faith in your own perceptions of truth, you will never be too late or too early; and nothing will go wrong.
—Wallace Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author
If it wasn’t for faith, there would be no living in this world; we couldn’t even eat hash with any safety.
—Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818–85) American Humorist, Author, Lecturer
The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
Faith can move mountains, but don’t be surprised if God hands you a shovel.
—Unknown
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English Clergyman, Essayist, Wit
Non-violence is the article of faith.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian Hindu Political leader
You can be anything you want to be, if you only believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.
—Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American Author, Journalist, Attorney, Lecturer
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
—Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-born American Philosopher, Poet, Painter, Theologian, Sculptor
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
Who put up that cage? Who hung it up with bars, doors? Why do those on the inside want to get out? Why do those outside want to get in? What is this crying inside and out all the time? What is this endless, useless beating of baffled wings at these bars, doors, this cage?
—Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American Biographer, Novelist, Socialist
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words, than words without a heart.
—John Bunyan (1628–88) English Puritan Writer, Preacher
Faith implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–94) American Physician, Essayist
There is but one ultimate Power. This Power is to each one what he is to it.
—Ernest Holmes (1887–1960) American New Thought Writer, Teacher
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
—William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician
Epochs of faith, are epochs of fruitf’ulness; but epochs of unbelief, however glittering, are barren of all permanent good.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
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
Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows.—Standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but standing within every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–64) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.
—E. M. Forster (1879–1970) English Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist
‘Tis not the dying for a faith that’s so hard… ‘Tis the living up to it that’s difficult.
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63) English Novelist
People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect—simply a confession of failures.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
Faith … acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
—John Henry Newman (1801–90) British Theologian, Poet
So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything.
—Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Indian Hindu Mystic, Religious Leader, Philosopher, Teacher
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
—Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian
Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.
—Josiah Royce (1855–1916) American Idealist Philosopher