Quotes about Faith

“Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.”

“But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.”

“That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.”

“I'm thankful for the ability to share my faith in a lot of different places. It's something that I take as a responsibility and an obligation to handle as best as I can.”

“What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.”

“I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.”

“There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.”

“We need a dose of doubt and a dose of faith, to challenge each other.”

“A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.”

“The recent blind faith some Republicans have shown toward free trade actually represents more of an aberration than a hallmark of true American conservatism. It's an anomaly that may well demand re-examination.”

“Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.”

“My faith in God has been the rudder that has allowed me to soar above the fray and to stay grounded and to learn from my mistakes.”

“My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.”

“Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.”

“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.”

“You can accomplish anything that you dedicate yourself to. Think how many people struggle across the world, across the country. I know anything is possible if you set your mind, your body, your soul, and your faith to it.”

“The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.”

“The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.”

“My feminism is what came squarely up against my faith. There's a lot of ecstatic post-patriarchal Christians who have stuff they do with that. But at that point, you're doing Christianity with a double-superscript. The Bible, and especially the book of Genesis, is pretty unapologetically patriarchal.”

“They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.”

“I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.”