Faith Quotes

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but fear.

Philip Yancey

Faith is reason gone courageous.

T Graham

Faith is confidence in God and a belief that his promises are true.

Faith is trusting God, believing that He loves us, and knows best what is for our good.

Ellen G White

Faith is expecting a sea of golden grain from the bleak, barren, endless fields – watered only by my tears – where I walk alone.

Pamela Reeve

Faith means striking out, with no clear end in sight and perhaps…no clear view of the next step. It means trusting, holding out a hand to an invisible Guide.

Philip Yancey

A living faith is nothing more than a steadfast pursuit of God through all that disguises, disfigures, demolishes and seeks to abolish him

De Caussade

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

James 2:26

Faith is not a leap into the dark, it is a step into the light.

Faith requires obedience without full knowledge. I choose to trust God anyhow, humbly accepting my position as a creature whose very life and worth depend upon God’s mercy.

Philip Yancey

In the midst of outer dangers I have felt an inner calm and known resources of strength that only God could give. In many instances I have felt the power of God transforming the fatigue of despair into the buoyancy of hope. I am convinced that the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship. Behind the harsh appearances of the world there is a benign power.

Martin Luther King

The greatest test is not whether we follow God’s will when we understand it, but whether we follow God’s will when we don’t understand it.

A knowledge of the truth depends not so much upon strength of intellect as upon pureness of purpose, the simplicity of an earnest, dependent faith.

Ellen G White

Fear can keep you up all night. Faith makes one fine pillow.

Confound not faith and feeling together. They are distinct. Faith is ours to exercise. Believe, believe. Let your faith take hold of the blessing, and it is yours by faith. Your feelings have nothing to do with this faith.

Ellen G White

Worry looks around. Sorry looks back. Faith looks up.

Faith is trusting God – believing that He loves us and knows best what is for our good.

Ellen G White

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Augustine

Faith is needed in the smaller no less than the greater affairs of life. In all our daily interests and occupations, the sustaining strength of God becomes real to us through an abiding trust.

Ellen G White

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

Mahalia Jackson

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

Gregory Peck

Through faith in Christ, every deficiency of character may be supplied, every defilement cleansed, every fault corrected, every excellence developed.

Ellen G White

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

D Elton Trueblood

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Rabindranath Tagore

It is our privilege to carry with us the credentials of our faith – love, joy and peace…When we learn to walk by faith and not by feeling, we shall have help from God just when we need it, and His peace will come into our hearts.

Ellen G White

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

Ben Carson

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Alan Watts

When you have faith in God, you don't have to worry about the future. You just know it's all in His hands. You just go to and do your best.

Elder Bryan Mathison

If you lose faith, you lose all.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Faith is unseen but felt, faith is strength when we feel we have none, faith is hope when all seems lost.

Catherine Pulsifer

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

My faith didn't remove the pain, but it got me through the pain. Trusting God didn't diminish or vanquish the anguish, but it enabled me to endure it.

Robert Rogers

We are weak, but if we will but believe, God will give us his enduring strength.

Ellen G White

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.

Martin Luther

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

Billy Graham