Faith Quotes

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

There is something endearing about people who give themselves up completely to their faith. But there is likewise something frightening about such a totality, which also is a feature of Islam.

The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.

Millions of Americans find community, comfort and support in their faith.

We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.

I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.

In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.

The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian.

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

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

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.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood

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

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.

I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.

When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.

The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.

I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.