A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor Hugo
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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.
Martin Luther
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
Emmanuel Teney
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Khalil Gibran
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Henry Ward Beecher
Faith and doubt both are needed – not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
Lillian Smith
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
Mahalia Jackson
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
Thomas Aquinas
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
Blaise Pascal
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Khalil Gibran
Faith is a passionate intuition.
William Wordsworth
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
D. Elton Trueblood
Faith is not contrary to reason.
Sherwood Eddy
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Mohandas Gandhi
Faith is reason grown courageous.
Sherwood Eddy
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Henry Ward Beecher
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William James
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
E. M. Forster
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Have faith in God; God has faith in you.
Edwin Louis Cole
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
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
I hold that religion and faith are two different things.
Pat Buckley
I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
Michael Malone
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
Mohandas Gandhi
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.
Blaise Pascal
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Benjamin Franklin
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
Miguel de Unamuno
It takes vision and courage to create – it takes faith and courage to prove.
Owen D. Young
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
Keep the faith, don’t lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.
Paula Abdul
Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
Oliver Cromwell
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
Novalis
Love, hope, fear, faith – these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
Robert Browning Hamilton
Man, I just feel blessed… I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me.
Puff Daddy
My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
Norman Cousins
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Khalil Gibran
Only faith is sufficient.
Robert Ley
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reason is our soul’s left hand, faith her right.
John Donne
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
To me faith means not worrying.
John Dewey
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Thomas Aquinas
Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
Mason Cooley
Vision looks upward and becomes faith.
Stephen Samuel Wise
We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.
David Brainerd
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
Plato
Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.
Paul Brunton
Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.
Edwin Louis Cole