Top 1200 Great Faith Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Faith and repentance are as much benefits of the covenant of grace as justification . . . . faith and repentance themselves . . . . are components of the gospel, not the workings or fruits of the law.

When you say if you have faith in America, I think it's the faith in the fact that we're going to end up changing the country, because if we don't, this country's in big trouble.

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.

Faith is walking by faith, not by what you feel. You are not always going to feel that Jesus loves you or that God is good, but you know He is. It is the up and down of the journey.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

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

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.

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

Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.

Facts mean little compared to attitudes. To contradict rumor or sentiment is as futile as arguing against a believer's faith in the Immaculate Conception. You have simply become a victim of faith, Comrade Assistant.

It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false.

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

Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy to recommend faith and not so easy to practise it.

To change, it takes a decision based on faith, faith takes forgetting everything you thought you knew.

To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith.

God's favorites, especially God's favorites, are not immune from the bewildering times when God seems silent. Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either. Faith demands uncertainty, confusion. The Bible includes many proofs of God's concern - some quite spectacular - but no guarantess. A guarantee would, after all, preclude faith.

In Christ and by Christ, God effects complete self-disclosure , although He shows Himself not to reason but to faith and love. Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience. God came to us in the incarnation; in atonement He reconciled us to Himself, and by faith and love we enter and lay hold on Him.

As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

My faith is not identified by my title. My faith is identified by how I live. Wearing the uniform is not the same as playing the game.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

In this Year of Faith, let us remember that faith is not something we possess, but something we share. Every Christian is an apostle.

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

Faith When you feel deeply that a certain act is the right act, do it and have perfect faith that the consequences will be good.

We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.

We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.

Faith is this extraordinary principle which links man to God; faith is this thing that keeps a man from hell and puts him in heaven; it is the connection between this world and the world to come; faith is this mystic astounding thing that can take a man dead in trespasses and sins and make him live as a new being, a new man in Christ Jesus.

That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God, that intense faith in the immortal soul, is in you. I challenge anyone to give it up. You cannot. You may try to impose upon me by becoming materialists, by talking materialism for a few months, but I know what you are; if I take you by the hand, back you come as good theists as ever were born. How can you change your nature?

Going in faith does not necessarily mean going with serenity or without doubts. Faith can be difficult.

Leadership requires followership and following is an act of trust, faith in the course of the leader, and that faith can be generated only if leaders act with integrity.

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

I could be spending time looking through a telescope or into a microscope and finding out the most extraordinary, wonderful things, but people say faith can move mountains. Faith in what, by the way? You haven't said.

God gave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and unshakeable faith, that he [Hitler] was sent to us by God to save Germany.

Emerging church leaders are not impressed by those who defend the Christian faith by promoting definitive answers to convince those who doubt the faith.

The Christian faith is a singing faith, and a good way to express it and share it with others is in community singing.

Faith is not a contract. Faith is surrender. If no other relationship in our experience is one of self-surrender, if it's all contractual, people won't know how to believe.

My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.

If it is in the Bible, it is so. It's not even to be prayed about. It's to be received and acted upon. Inactivity is a robber which steals blessings. Increase comes by action, by using what we have and know. Your life must be one of going on from faith to faith.

Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.

Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.

The same Holy Spirit who implants faith within a life implants the boldness to verbalize that faith.

Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.

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.

“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.”

Courage is a value. My faith is the organizing principle in my life and what underpins my faith is courage and love, and so I have to be in the arena if I'm going to live in alignment with my values.

You know the people who have the bumper stickers that say "Windows 95 = Mac '89"? These are the faithful, and I respect their faith, but I would like to respectfully point out that faith is dangerous. Religion kills.

Learning by faith and from experience are two of the central features of the Father's plan of happiness. The Savior preserved moral agency through the Atonement and made it possible for us to act and to learn by faith.

Thus it is that our faith and trust in our Heavenly Father, so far as this mortal experience is concerned, consists not simply of faith and gladness that He exists, but is also a faith and trust that, if we are humble, He will tutor us, aiding our acquisition of needed attributes and experiences while we are in mortality. We trust not only the Designer but also His design of life itself, including our portion thereof!

If you've got just a little bit of faith as a grain of mustard seed, and begin to praise God - that faith will mount up, until fear won't be able to stay in your heart.

We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important source of goodness in our country.

Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends.

I'm a constitutionalist. You know, does faith matter to me? Sure. But the beauty of the Constitution, the beauty of the First Amendment, it protects everyone's faith.

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

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.

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

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

There is...a tendency to think of the spiritual life as primarily introspective, divorced from the concerns of everyday life....Faith that does not translate into actions is no faith at all.

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.