Quotes about Faith

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

“The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.”

“This is a day of little faith - of few convictions - a day when men seem to have no great causes and no great passions. So in frustration, in disappointment, they are inclined to say, 'You can't change human nature.' It is true that we cannot change human nature. But God can.”

“Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.”

“Our inner beliefs trigger failure before it happens. They sabotage lasting change by canceling its possibility. We employ these beliefs as articles of faith to justify our inaction and then wish away the result. I call them belief triggers.”

“I have the utmost respect for the different faiths professed by my fellow men.”

“Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.”

“Where there's a storm, from one moment to the next, God can bring calm. That's why I have faith. I confide in him and give myself to his hands.”

“My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.”

“Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.”

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”

“This character matters so much to so many people. I want to get that right. I want to do it justice. I want people to believe in the character and have faith in the character and kids to grow up wanting to be Superman. Or, God forbid, there's people who are going through hardship and wishing that this character would turn up and save them.”

“Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?”

“I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.”

“Beware of generalizations about any faith because they sometimes amount to the religious equivalent of racial profiling. Hinduism contained both Gandhi and the fanatic who assassinated him.”

“Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.”

“I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.”

“If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.”

“I didn't believe in a guardian angel when I was young. I was brought up in the Protestant faith, and the one thing you had over your Catholic friends was that you didn't have those awful saints chivvying you around.”

“I try to stay centered in my faith and my family and the close people around me.”

“Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.”