Faith Quotes

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

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.

I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

A library implies an act of faith.

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.

The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.

Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.

I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.

If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.

I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

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.

There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.