Faith Quotes - Page 3

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.

Spirit is the real and eternal matter is the unreal and the temporal.

Mary Baker Eddy

Faith without works is dead.

Bible

He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.

I pray hard work hard and leave the rest to God.

Florence Griffith Joyner

All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to our tasks to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel towards our distant goal.

Faith is not something to grasp it is a state to grow into.

Possessing faith is not convenient. You still have to live it.

Francoise Mallet-Joris

Faith is a curious thing It must be renewed it has its own spring.

However much we do to avoid them we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

Teresa of Avila.

To disbelieve is easy to scoff is simple to have faith is harder.

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won.

Faith is a living and unshakable confidence a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.

It is only mercenaries who expect to be paid by the day.

Teresa of Avila.

Faith to my mind is a stiffening process a sort of mental starch.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

William Ellery Channing

Faith is hidden household capital.

Johann von Goethe

Faith is the soul riding at anchor.

Faith is ... knowing with your heart.

N. Richard Nash

Faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

Arthur M. Ramsey

Faith as an intellectual state is self-reliance.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite.

Elizabeth O. Smith

Faith is nothing but obedience and piety.

Faith is a theological virtue that inclines the mind under the influence of the will and grace to yield firm assent to revealed truths because of the authority of God.

Adolphe Tanqueray

Faith is the only known cure for fear.

What's up is faith what's down is heresy.

Alfred

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Henry Ward Beecher

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Faith is an encounter in which God takes and keeps the initiative.

Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

James Russell Lowell

Faith is a practical attitude of the will.

Faith is a total attitude of the self.

John Macquarrie

Faith is nothing else than trust in the divine mercy promised in Christ.

Philipp Melanchthon

Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God and the things of God.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

William Wordsworth

Faith is a bridge across the gulf of death.

Faith is verification by the heart confession by the tongue action by the limbs.

Anonymous

Faith is a certitude without proofs ... a sentiment for it is a hope it is an instinct for it precedes all outward instruction.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Faith is the proper name of religious experience.

The will of God will not take you where the grace of God cannot keep you.

Anonymous

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion on slender evidence.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

Faith is kind of like jumping out of an airplane at ten thousand feet. If God doesn't catch you you splatter. But how do you know whether or not He is going to catch you unless you jump out?

Without risk faith is an impossibility.

Søren Kierkegaard

If it wasn't for faith there would be no living in this world we couldn't even eat hash with any safety.

Living is a form of not being sure not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Let us move on and step out boldly though it be into the night and we can scarcely see the way. A Higher Intelligence than the mortal sees the road before us.

Charles B. Newcomb

Faith is an assent of the mind and a consent of the heart consisting mainly of belief and trust.

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe but each has to believe by himself.

Whether we name divine presence synchronicity serendipity or graced moment matters little. What matters is the reality that our hearts have been understood. Nothing is as real as a healthy dose of magic which restores our spirits.

Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.

Shirley Maclaine

We cannot hand our faith to one another. ... Even in the Middle Ages when faith was theoretically uniform it was always practically individual.

John Jay Chapman

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.

Dr. Robert H. Schuller

I believe devoutly in the Word. The Word can save all destroy all stop the inevitable and express the inexpressible.

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and furthermore it is to act as if He did exist.

Miguel de Unamuno

The principle part of faith is patience.

George MacDonald

I've been readen th Bible an a hunten God fer a long while-off an on- but it ain't so easy as picken up a nickel off the floor.

Harriette Arnow

In prayer one must hold fast and never let go because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door go back in by the other.

Jane Frances de Chantal

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Can a faith that does nothing be called sincere?

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