Let nothing disturb thee, nothing affright thee; all things are passing; God never changeth.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired, although not in the hour or in the measure, or the very thing which they ask. Yet they will obtain something greater and more glorious than they had dared to ask.

Martin Luther King Jr.

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

William Shakespeare

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Mahatma Gandhi

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Benjamin Franklin

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.

Frederick Warren

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

The Dalai Lama

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Blaise Pascal

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

God, I don't have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher

The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher

I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.

Albert Einstein

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

Albert Einstein

Faith in something greater than ourselves enables us to do what we have said we'll do, to press forward when we are tired or hurt or afraid, to keep going when the challenge seems overwhelming and the course is entirely uncertain.

Gordon B. Hinckley

And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

Henry David Thoreau

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Paul Tillich

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Robert Burton

If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.

Dan Barker

Faith without works is as dead as a doornail.

Millard Fuller

We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God's existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

Real Live Preacher

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Richard Dawkins

A man is only as faithful as his options.

Chris Rock

Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.

James Cone

What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Shakti Gawain

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

Lillian Smith

You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.

Dan Barker

Faith is a continuation of reason.

William Adams (explorer)

Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

Henry S. Haskins

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

Aleister Crowley

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

John Paul Jones

Faith is not contrary to reason.

Sherwood Eddy

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Saint Augustine

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Henry Ward Beecher

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

George E. Woodberry

We get so focused on micromanaging God and His Kingdom that we forget to realize that He is more than capable of handling things on His own!

Bridget Willard

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a place to live.

George E. Woodberry

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.

Thomas Brooks

Faith is reason grown courageous.

Sherwood Eddy

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

Leslie Stephen

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

Deep faith eliminates fear.

Lech Walesa

When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

Harlan Ellison

Faith is never identical with piety.

Karl Barth

This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.

John Newton

If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

Madeleine L'Engle

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

William James

Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects.

Ralph Waldo Trine

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa Of Calcutta

Rich people have money, poor people have faith.

Helene Lagerberg

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

Dennis Prager

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

Dan Millman

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Kahlil Gibran

God does not begin by asking our ability,only our availability,and if we prove our dependability,He will increase our capability.

Neal A. Maxwell

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

B. C. Forbes

Fear constipates Faith.

Jason King

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

Garth Brooks

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

Albert Pike

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing...

Robert Collier

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits.

Dan Barker

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.

Miguel de Unamuno

Faith is building on what you know is here so you can reach what you know is there.

Cullen Hightower

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Charles Lindbergh

The commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

Sir James MacKintosh

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Erich Fromm

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

Elie Wiesel

The unexamined faith is not worth having.

Elton Trueblood

What until recently seemed to be only the apocalyptic fantasies of the Christian faith has today entered the sphere of the soberest scientific calculations; the sudden end of history.

Emil Brunner

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

General Douglas MacArthur

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

George Bernard Shaw

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The habit of intellectual principles without reasons is called faith.

Friedrich Nietzsche

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.

Thomas Jefferson

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.

Benjamin Franklin

Never confuse the faith with the supposedly faithful.

Randy K. Milholland

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.

Thomas H. Huxley

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

Thomas A. Edison

The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.

Ayn Rand

I believe with all my heart that one cannot be America's president without a belief in God, without the strength that your faith gives you.

George W. Bush

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

Robert Browning

Faithful servants never retire, ... You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

Frederick Warren

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Keller

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

Helen Keller

Faith is, above all, openess; an act of trust in the unknown.

Alan Watts

When the season comes, he'll have some faith in me.

Calvin Brock

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

Adolf Hitler

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

J. William Fulbright

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety.

Josh Billings

There can be no question about it. It was in bad faith, and it is arrogant.

Barry Scheck

They have put their faith in me as leader and I have let them down.

John Brogden

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Eric Hoffer

It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.

Sydney Smith

Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

Stephen S. Wise

I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

It's a matter of faith. Investors are being asked to be patient.

Dan Geiman

We call our chaplains seed planters of faith.

Reviris Guelker

So the Christians and the Pagans sit together at the tableFinding faith and common ground the best that they were able.

Dar Williams

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

John Lancaster Spalding

Christian faith is built on the words and teachings of Jesus Christ.

Ted Strickland

This is a good faith effort to describe those witnesses we currently believe may be called to testify at trial.

Daniel Petrocelli

Uncharted leap of blind faith.

Robert Klein

I'm a person of faith, [but] I don't carry it on my sleeve.

Christine Gregoire

The jury verdict is an endorsement that American Family always acted in good faith.

Michael Mclachlan

Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place.

Joseph Goebbels

You have to educate religious bodies that social justice is faith in action.

Linda Hilton

You just have to pray. You just have to have faith in the lord that she will survive this.

Lennis Dean

I have not heard of Christians being arrested because of their faith. But believers have been arrested because they did something illegal, which should be punished by law.

Cao Shengjie

One may appear naive or illogical but it's not naivete or being illogical. It arises from one's faith.

Anita David

When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.

Junius

I have great faith in the Peruvian people.

Lourdes Flores

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Ruth Benedict

The people that we are having on our tour all came from the church. Most people of faith don't realize that these are also people of faith!

Yolanda Adams

Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.

James Beattie

I had the same faith they espouse.

John Howell

I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

Julia Ward Howe

I think there is a lot of quality control and quality assurance built into what we're doing here. There is a high degree of comfort for companies to make that leap of faith.

David Epstein

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

Tony Benn

Logan has my complete faith and trust.

Paul Depodesta

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan--by faith, not by reason.

Jules Verne

We need to build new systems to restore investors' faith.

Takuo Tsurushima

Don't label. That's a matter of faith.

Shea Brown

People of faith and conscience will continue . . . because that is the nature of our faith and our moral duty.

Stuart Taylor

You can't bring faith into this. It would not work.

Tim Golden

We can address the whole person in a faith-based educational system.

Christina Johnson

That was great. Pete's a captain and he's really stepping it up. I had complete faith in him in that situation.

Matt Hart

We have all the faith in the world in Mike.

Rocky Nelson

I think the faith community can make a difference, ... The question is whether they will.

Bob Edgar

We've negotiated in good faith to this point. We'll continue to do so.

Deric Ladnier

I write a lot about the Bible and integrate my faith into my poems.

Amanda Cunningham

I had faith in the Mets and I had faith in my advisors. I knew it could get done. Once you're assured of that, it's no big deal being patient.

Mike Pelfrey

We bypassed the local system because we have no faith that they?re going to do anything.

Aaron Robinson

This was a three-way leap of faith, frankly.

Dick Cook

Faith is in the eye of the beholder.

Tilda Swinton

They have their faith and out of something bad, something good can come out of it.

Debbie Pehlke

Even though the equity market does rebound a little bit, it is never met with a lot of faith.

James Caron

I think they leave here encouraged. I think they leave here excited about their faith in Jesus Christ. And I think they just leave here energized.

Gary Gentry

The law is about preventing unreasonable vilification that is not in good faith, and we see that as no more controversial than any defamation law.

Islamic Council

I keep her in my prayers. I don't try to make it a burden on me, every day worrying about her. I just have faith that she's doing well.

Tamba Hali

God is angry with me, but I cannot be angry with him. This is a test of my faith. I have nothing else.

Fazlur Rahman

It's at points terrifying but again, I have great faith that God will get them through this.

Cindi Williams

We knew he was going to be a faithful soldier for his Christ.

John Vance

If God existed as an all-powerful being, He would not need the money that faithful believers donate to their churches.

Donald Morgan

You've got to try to have a lot of faith in God and lean on that.

Herman Edwards

Yes, sir, I have total faith in him. I've always had total faith in him.

Joseph Jackson

Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love.

Bible

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. .

Alexander The Great

Even after moving away to Washington, she was always very faithful in coming back.

Barry Mccarty

I have great faith.

Don Montgomery

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

Christopher Fry

I need to have a strong faith, because no one else could handle this.

Cheryl Stewart

There's a huge commitment on the part of the faith-based community to do something about this issue.

Jerry Rauckhorst

He's shown me over and over that I just need to have faith in him.

Wendy White

As a faith community, we want to respond, whether that is individually or as an organization.

Jeff Jones

This is not showing good faith, if the intent is to drag it out.

Lisa Hurd

Sir Philip acted properly and in good faith at all times.

Herbert Smith

We were doing it in a good faith effort to arrive at a compromise.

Rep. Scott Suder

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped' for, the evidence of things not seen.

Bible

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

Paul Tillich

Alternative forms of organized spirituality, as well as individualized faith experience and expression.

George Barna

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

Thomas Kempis

The point of the cartoon was that regardless of which faith someone belongs to, they should not fight or go to war with one another.

Tatyana Kaminskaya

Everything that he did was reasonable. He acted in good faith for some of your fellow citizens.

Michael Mcguire

He acted in good faith. He honestly held the belief that what he was selling was FDA-approved.

Rocco Cipparone

I would lay my life on the line that the IRA has acted in good faith, and has fully disarmed.

Alec Reid

[Franchisees] would view that as a lack of faith in the business, ... And the damage that would do, and that's not an exaggeration, we believe would be irreparable.

Matthew Paull

Without faith I wouldn't be standing here.

Jason Green

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

H. L. Mencken

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

Aretha Franklin

I thought we had a good look. We have faith in Coby. It looked in from the bench.

Kurt Cunningham

The faith-based community in the U.S. is one of our strongest customer bases and allies in promoting Fair Trade.

Anna Utec

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.

James Lee Burke

Now I have more faith that the company will survive.

Todd Kort

I like to use public speaking as a platform for my faith.

Brock Kreitzburg

Give voters confidence and faith in the elections process.

Bill Stephens

The faith that stand on authority is not faith.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have a faith in a God that's much bigger than any of this.

Dawn Wells

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

Henry Ellis

What sets Samaritan apart is we are a faith-based agency.

Margaret Jones

One of the key differences is we have that faith element there for those parents looking for a faith-based program.

Anna Fleming

We want to ... create a building that reflects the architecture of the city and the hospital's faith-based heritage.

Michael Hachey

There's no question that the president's faith is real, that it's authentic, that it's genuine, and there's no question that it's calculated.

Doug Wead

How Folk Songs Carry Themes of Faith.

Tom Hunter

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Plato

He's got a keen eye for doctrine and fidelity to our Baptist Faith and Message.

Bill Dodson