Faith - In Quotations

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

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

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

Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.
Edwin Louis Cole

To me faith means not worrying.
John Dewey

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
John Donne

Faith is reason grown courageous.
Sherwood Eddy

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

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
E. M. Forster

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.
Kahlil Gibran

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
Mother Teresa

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
Elie Wiesel

Faith is a passionate intuition.
William Wordsworth