Quotes on Faith

"It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."
Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
Martin Luther King Jr.

"My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, ’God is, was and ever shall be’."
Mahatma Gandhi

"Faith is a passionate intuition."
William Wordsworth

"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times."
Martin Luther

"Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active."
Edith Hamilton

"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

"The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out."
James Baldwin

"Faith is a kind of knowing; it is different from hope. My faith is that life is purposeful; of that I'm sure. There is a God, there is intelligence, there is consciousness. And behind all of this, there is incredible compassion."
John Denver

"Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles."
Confucius

"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a gift from God."
Blaise Pascal

"On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property."
Buddha

"Desire, ask, believe, receive."
Stella Terrill Mann

"Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe."
St. Augustine

"Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see."
William Newton Clarke

"Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God."
Carter Lindberg

"Faith is more important to me than life itself because without it there would be no fullness of life."
Mother Teresa

"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

"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."
Henry David Thoreau

"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."
Henry Beecher

"The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus."
John Piper

"Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand."
Saint Thomas Acquinas

"A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding."
Douglas MacArthur