Faith Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

102 Faith Quotes
“The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith--and faith will triumph.”
General Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre Quotes
Source: at unveiling of a statue of Lafayette in Brooklyn
“If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.”
Ben Jonson Quotes
Source: The Devil Is an Ass (act IV, sc. 1)
“And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand--the habit of mind which theologians call--and rightly--faith in God.”
Charles Kingsley Quotes
Source: Health and Education On Bio-Geology
“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 Quotes
Source: My Study Windows--Abraham Lincoln
“O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Comus (l. 213)
“That in such righteousness To them by faith imputed they may find Justification towards God, and peace Of conscience.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XII, l. 294)
“Yet I argue not Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of right or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: To Cyriack Skinner
“How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which to-day are fables to us! [Fr., Combien de choses nous servoient heir d'articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd'hui!]”
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne Quotes
Source: Essays (bk. I, ch. XXVI)
“Faith is a passionate intuition.”
William Wordsworth Quotes
“Faith is spiritualized imagination.”
Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”
Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
“If it wasn't for faith, there would be no living in this world; we couldn't even eat hash with any safety.”
Josh Billings Quotes
“Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.”
Robert Collyer Quotes
“Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.”
Ramona C. Carroll Quotes
“To me faith means not worrying.”
John Dewey Quotes
“Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.”
John Donne Quotes
“Faith is reason grown courageous.”
Sherwood Eddy Quotes
“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
“Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.”
E. M. Forster Quotes
“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 Quotes
“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”
Kahlil Gibran Quotes
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”
Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes
“Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.”
Carter Lindberg Quotes
“Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.”
David S. Muzzey Quotes
“'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true.”
Friedrich Nietzche Quotes