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Faith Proverbs

Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. ~ David S. Muzzey

We cannot hand our faith to one another…. Even in the middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual. ~ John Jay Chapman

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

Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it’s the right move. ~ Robert H. Schuller

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

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

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 Quotes

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. ~ Ruth Benedict

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them. ~ Mahalia Jackson

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. ~ William James

Faith is a passionate intuition. ~ William Wordsworth

There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith. ~ Margot Asquith

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

Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right. ~John Donne

Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is. ~ Colette Baron-Reid

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

To me faith means not worrying. ~John Dewey

Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward. ~ Thomas Alva Edison

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

Faith is the quiet cousin of courage. ~ Judith Hanson Lasater

Faith is spiritualized imagination. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn’t even eat hash with safety. ~Josh Billings

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

Faith is reason grown courageous. ~ Sherwood Eddy

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog. ~ Corrie Ten Boom

The faith that stands on authority is not faith. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future. ~ Robert Collyer

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far, but faith has no limits. ~ Blaise Pascal

Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture. ~ Thomas Hobbes

Faith is Hope with a holier name, hope that knows neither deceit nor death. Ah, how wisely do you speak of the philosophy of belief! It is, indeed, the telescope through which the stars grow large upon our gaze. ~ Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ~J.R.R. Tolkien

Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us. ~ W. Ralph Ward

Faith… must be enforced by reason…. When faith becomes blind it dies. ~ Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. ~ George Seaton

Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. ~ George Lancaster Spalding

Faith is putting all your eggs in God’s basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. ~ Ramona C. Carroll

Walking is easy … but it requires faith to find the right path. ~ John Twelve Hawks

Faith doesn’t mean that you don’t have doubts. ~ Barack Obama Quotes

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains…. But it can put mountains where there are none. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

Faith doesn’t wait until it understands; in that case it wouldn’t be faith. ~ Vance Havner

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Oh, brethren, be great believers! Little faith will bring your souls to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to you. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

Faith is not just something you have, it’s something you do. ~ Barack Obama Quotes

To pray without faith is to make a small fire while it is raining heavily. ~ William Scott Downey

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice. ~ George W. Goethals

Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys. ~ Madeleine L’Engle

Funny thing about faith … it goes a lot faster than it comes. ~ Rob Thurmann

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. ~ Miguel De Unamuno

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate. ~ Michael Eric Dyson


Sayings about Faith

He who lost his faith, has nothing more to lose. ~ Spanish Proverbs

Who doesn’t keep faith with God won’t keep it with men. ~ Dutch Proverbs

Faith keeps the world going. ~ Indian Proverbs

The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb

Have faith — God calls forth life even from eggs. ~ Indian Proverb

Weave in faith and God will find the thread. ~ Traditional Proverb

Faith is confirmed by the heart, confessed by the tongue, and acted upon by the body. ~ Sufi Proverb

Faith and dishonesty are other words for uselessness. ~ Chinese Proverb

Only believe in the faith of a woman as you would believe in miracles. ~ German Proverbs

Faith will move mountains. ~ Traditional Proverb

The priest’s friend loses his faith, the doctor’s his health, and the lawyer’s his fortune. ~ Italian Proverbs

There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them. ~ French Proverb

A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he. ~ Indian Proverb

Faith has no eyes; he who asks to see has no faith. ~ Portuguese Proverbs

Sayings

Faith makes things possible, not easy.

Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

Faith can move mountains, but don’t be surprised if God hands you a shovel.

Faith is not about everything turning out okay, faith is about being okay no matter how things turn out.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.

Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there.

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.

A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Quotations about Faith

Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. ~ David S. Muzzey

We cannot hand our faith to one another…. Even in the middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual. ~ John Jay Chapman

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

Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it’s the right move. ~ Robert H. Schuller

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

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

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 Quotes

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. ~ Ruth Benedict

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them. ~ Mahalia Jackson

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. ~ William James

Faith is a passionate intuition. ~ William Wordsworth

There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith. ~ Margot Asquith

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

Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right. ~John Donne

Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is. ~ Colette Baron-Reid

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

To me faith means not worrying. ~John Dewey

Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward. ~ Thomas Alva Edison

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

Faith is the quiet cousin of courage. ~ Judith Hanson Lasater

Faith is spiritualized imagination. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn’t even eat hash with safety. ~Josh Billings

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

Faith is reason grown courageous. ~ Sherwood Eddy

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog. ~ Corrie Ten Boom

The faith that stands on authority is not faith. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future. ~ Robert Collyer

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far, but faith has no limits. ~ Blaise Pascal

Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture. ~ Thomas Hobbes

Faith is Hope with a holier name, hope that knows neither deceit nor death. Ah, how wisely do you speak of the philosophy of belief! It is, indeed, the telescope through which the stars grow large upon our gaze. ~ Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ~J.R.R. Tolkien

Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us. ~ W. Ralph Ward

Faith… must be enforced by reason…. When faith becomes blind it dies. ~ Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. ~ George Seaton

Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. ~ George Lancaster Spalding

Faith is putting all your eggs in God’s basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. ~ Ramona C. Carroll

Walking is easy … but it requires faith to find the right path. ~ John Twelve Hawks

Faith doesn’t mean that you don’t have doubts. ~ Barack Obama Quotes

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains…. But it can put mountains where there are none. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

Faith doesn’t wait until it understands; in that case it wouldn’t be faith. ~ Vance Havner

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Oh, brethren, be great believers! Little faith will bring your souls to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to you. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

Faith is not just something you have, it’s something you do. ~ Barack Obama Quotes

To pray without faith is to make a small fire while it is raining heavily. ~ William Scott Downey

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice. ~ George W. Goethals

Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys. ~ Madeleine L’Engle

Funny thing about faith … it goes a lot faster than it comes. ~ Rob Thurmann

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. ~ Miguel De Unamuno

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate. ~ Michael Eric Dyson