Faith - Quotes & Sayings

A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.

Thomas S. Monson

I have never known Frances to complain once of my Church responsibilities. I have been gone many days and many nights, and I have rarely been able to sit with her in the congregation. But there is no one like her - absolutely no one. She is in every way supportive and is a woman of quiet and profoundly powerful faith.

Thomas S. Monson

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

Dan Brown

In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong.

James E. Faust

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.

Emile Durkheim

My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

Marian Wright Edelman

I try to act out of faith.

Marian Wright Edelman

I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.

Marian Wright Edelman

We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The gift of the Holy Ghost, which is the right to receive the Holy Ghost as a constant companion, is obtained only upon condition of faith in Christ, repentance, baptism by immersion, and the laying on of hands by authorized servants endowed with the Melchizedek Priesthood.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

Miley Cyrus

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

Tertullian

When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine.

John Piper

If you've ever questioned your faith, you're going to question it when you are burying your own children.

Matt Bevin

Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.

Jeremy Lin

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

J. C. Watts

What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.

Benny Hinn

This is a day of little faith - of few convictions - a day when men seem to have no great causes and no great passions. So in frustration, in disappointment, they are inclined to say, 'You can't change human nature.' It is true that we cannot change human nature. But God can.

Peter Marshall

If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.

Don King

Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.

Kirk Cameron

The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man - and the dogma is the drama.

Dorothy L. Sayers

We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.

James Altucher

Faith is never identical with piety.

Karl Barth

I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

Tori Amos

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

Martin Sheen

If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.

Eric Schneiderman

Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.

Carrie-Anne Moss

As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation - the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ.

Lewis B. Smedes

Faith properly informs the religious lawyer or judge, and morality is not in tension with fidelity to the law.

William H. Pryor

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Laurence Sterne

I think our devotion to Mary is very beautiful. She has a sacred role in Catholicism, and her strong faith and humility are things we can learn from.

Katie Ledecky

There is not enough faith in black music at a high level.

Estelle

Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong.

Ricky Martin

May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

Ignatius of Antioch

The spiritual ambiguity growing up made me really latch onto a faith - Protestantism - that was somewhat conventional. Everyone else was rebelling against traditions and institutions, whereas I was rebelling against the upheaval and uncertainty in my family.

Sufjan Stevens

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

Cyril Connolly

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

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

Pat Buckley

Business owners should not have to choose between violating their faith and violating the law.

David Green

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

Anna Letitia Barbauld

I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.

J. J. Abrams

Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious - but it was a faith of moderation and tolerance. Women made up nearly half my class at university, and my senior academic adviser there was a woman. In Alexandria, my friends were Christians and Muslims.

Ahmed Zewail

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

Benjamin Whichcote

It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

Orson Pratt

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.

Desmond Morris

Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

Stephen Samuel Wise

It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody.

Christian Slater

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.

Gustave Moreau