Top 1200 True Faith Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.

Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.

Live as if you have faith,” she said, “and faith shall be given to you.

Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.

Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not.

As one candle is lit from the flame of another, so is faith kindled by faith.

If the West believed in something, it would prevail overnight. The problem is you can't beat bad faith with no faith.

Sometimes we want things we were not meant to have. Because he loves us, the Father says no. Faith trusts that no. Faith is willing not to have what God is not willing to give. Furthermore, faith does not insist upon an explanation. It is enough to know His promises to give what is good-he knows so much more about us than we do.

My mother had faith in me, had more faith in me than I had in myself, and knowing that she did made me try to find faith. She believed in trying things.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.

Faith in yourself and faith in God are the key to mastery of fear.

People of faith, people of no faith, people of different faith, that's what America is all about; it's bringing that diversity into and challenge of the different ideas that motivate people in our country. That's what makes America work.

As patterns of obedience develop, the specific blessings associated with obedience are realized and belief emerges. Desire, hope, and belief are forms of faith, but faith as a principle of power comes from a consistent pattern of obedient behavior and attitudes. Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power.

A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have faith in it now.

There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana

Faith is the backbone of the social and the foundation of the commercial fabric; remove faith between man and man, and society and commerce fall to pieces. There is not a happy home on earth but stands on faith; our heads are pillowed on it, we sleep at night in its arms with greater security for the safety of our lives, peace, and prosperity than bolts and bars can give.

Losing your faith is an essential part of having a three-dimensional, vivid, vibrant faith.

Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.

Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.

Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.

Faith is indispensable for success. Faith is induced and strengthened by the instructions you give your subconscious mind.

Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.

I think faith is the one common denominator between everything that goes on at the race track - a faith in Christ.

When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.

Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'

Judge not man by his outward manifestation of faith; for some there are who tremblingly reach out shaking hands to the guidance of faith; others who stoutly venture in the dark their human confidence, their leader, which they mistake for faith; some whose hope totters upon crutches; others who stalk into futurity upon stilts. The difference is chiefly constitutional with them.

My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.

It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.

For having wealth and wherewithal to "do good", if you do it not, talk not of faith, for you have no faith in you.

I don't think you need to justify faith, faith is its own justification.

We must have faith in the people of this country and faith in our principles.

Few people today realize just how much faith in oneself (that part of oneself which is spiritual, perfect) has to do with achievement, because the great majority of people never seem to conceive of faith as being a genuine creative force. Yet the truth is that not only is Faith a bona fide power, but it is the greatest one we will ever encounter.

We have to choose faith even if we don't feel it. Or hold on to a friend who has faith.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.

Faith in God necessarily implies a lack of faith in humanity.

The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution.

All we need to begin with is a #? dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now.

I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom had told me--that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

My grandfather was a faith healer and medium and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.

Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.

Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.

Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation.

You say you've lost your faith But that's not where it's at You have no faith to lose and you know it

A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.

Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.

God guides his church, maintains her always, and especially in difficult times. Let us never lose this vision of faith, which is the only true vision of the way of the church and the world.

You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith.

If you don’t have faith in yourself, then nobody else will have faith in you.

My faith is my faith, and I cannot allow anyone to take that from me.

What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction

Faith in Christ is not some blind leap into a dark chasm, but a faith based on established evidence.

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith....Power is not to be crossed; one must respect and obey. Power means strength, whereas love is a human frailty the people mistrust. It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

Amidst sorrows, the only thing that enlivens us is optimistic faith. Never lose that faith.

The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or the next. It was the deep knowledge - and pray God we have not lost it - that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest.