Faith Quotes

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.

The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.

As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.

Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.

Treat the other man's faith gently: it is all he has to believe with.

I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.

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

And in that I cannot send unto you all my businesses in writing, I despatch these present bearers fully informed in all things, to whom it may please you to give faith and credence in what they shall say unto you by word of mouth.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.

I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.

Keep the faith, keep the faith, keep working.

We realize that Judaism as a faith can survive only in an atmosphere of general faith.

I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.

Faith is important to me.

Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.

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

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Faith is not contrary to reason.

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

Faith is reason grown courageous.

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics who knocked me about at grammar school thought that.

To me faith means not worrying.