Top 1200 Good Faith Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.

If you're going to vote for somebody because you think they have a great faith in God, you'd better be sure that God has faith in them.

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

I don't have a problem with other people having different faith; my problem is if we confuse respecting that with surrendering our own faith.

The problem is that people think faith is something to be admired. In fact, faith means you believe in something for which you have no evidence.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.

Some of my fear and anxieties surrounding faith, I think, provides some good comedy for my act.

Faith can make no appeal to reason or the fitness of things; its appeal is to the Word of God, and whatever is therein revealed, faith accepts as true.

Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love].

I don't feel God is what people have said He is throughout generations. For me it's a faith. People sometimes lose the concept of faith.

Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.

Religion is faith. Faith is belief without evidence. Belief without evidence cannot be shared. Faith is a feeling. Love is also a feeling, but love makes no universal claims. Love is pure.

Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith.

I believe because I am told to believe ... My faith is faith; it is not evolved out of argumentation, nor does it seek the aid of that.

For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

The older I get, the less I am bothered by talk like that. I have total faith in my coach Yohan Blake, total faith.

I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life; I've come too far to be a pessimist.

Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.

I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly do. I think God's greatest blessing to the human race was when He sent man forth into the world to earn his bread by the sweat of his face. I believe in toil, in the dignity of labor, but I also believe in adequate compensation for that toil.

Maybe the reason faith is called faith is because seeing doesn't lead to belief, but belief transforms the way we see.

“You don't have much faith in people, do you?” said David. “I don't have much faith in anything,” Roland replied. “Not even in myself.”

I've always had faith in my ring ability, but sometimes it's how you are perceived, and how good you are doesn't matter.

The spontaneous expansion of the Church reduced to its elements is a very simple thing...What is necessary is faith. What is needed is the kind of faith which uniting a man to Christ, sets him on fire.

The most important element in human life is faith; if God were to take away all his blessings-health, physical fitness, wealth, intelligence-and leave me with but one gift I would ask him for faith. For with faith in him and his goodness, mercy and love for me, and belief in everlasting life, I believe I could suffer the loss of all my other gifts and still be happy.

In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the individual, centred in his heart, is, or may be, collateral to them. Faith is subjective.

The most important thing in a person's life is his faith and how he translates his faith into practical deeds.

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

I have faith in all mankind. Well,not faith really, more like hopeful suspicion. And not "all" but 5 people. Mankind meaning computers.

There is nothing anti-intellectual in the leap of faith, for faith is not believing without proof but trusting without reservation.

The size of your faith or the degree of your knowledge is not the issue—it is the integrity you demonstrate toward the faith you do have and the truth you already know.

I have total faith in my abilities, total faith in what I can do on the pitch, and I just have to focus on that, on my game, and help the team be successful, and I have no worries.

Here's something that intrigues me: If you have faith, you believe regardless of the evidence, yet if there's ever evidence to support faith, everyone goes to it and points to it.

In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life

Take your faith out of the lies! Free your faith, and you will see how powerful you become.

When you're in the pits, all the faith in the world won't get you out of it. But just a little faith in God will get you through it.

If my house has collapsed at one blow, that is because it was a house of cards. The faith which 'took these things into account' was not faith but imagination.

My faith falters at times. But I have a very, very strong faith in work ethic, for lack of a better way of putting it.

Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests.

A natural faith is sufficient for trusting a human object; but a supernatural faith is required to trust savingly in a Divine object.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one.

There is a fine line between faith and confidence. Confidence has a self-reliance. Faith is really about giving in.

The faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give of their time and energy to shape the various institutions - social, economic, and political - of the common life.

Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.

You discover your true faith when you start flowing with your conscience. After lessons, visions, and theories validate themselves to you, you build faith in that hypothesis/ feeling/ idea that originated from your own heart and mind - not that of others. Before you submit to any one religion, create your own and find which one out there resonates closest with the one already in your heart. This is the way to choose your faith.

Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.

Faith makes you stable and steady. It brings out the totality in you. Consolidation of your energy is faith. Dissemination of energy is doubt.

In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.

The faith by which we live shall never vary in any age . . . for one is the faith which sanctifies the Just of all ages.

I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.

I had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever had for another man. And so I didn't try and see him as he actually was.

In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship

How in the world could you ever imagine a life of faith that does not require risk? Faith and risk are inseparable.

Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out.

Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.

We know that men and women can be good without faith. We know that.

Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.

Tithing is not a matter of money, really; it is a matter of faith—faith in the Lord. He promises blessings if we obey His commandments.

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.