Quotes about Faith

“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”

“We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.”

“Wilberforce, because of his faith, stood up for African slaves. Bonhoeffer, because of his faith, stood up for Jews. That's Christianity to me.”

“Salvation is by repentance and faith, and if you have truly believed unto salvation, you have been regenerated, which means you have become a new creature, and you are going to live a different life. And so works do not result in salvation.”

“The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we... bear witness that there is no God but God.”

“To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.”

“You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I'm going to be my best right now. That's what faith is all about.”

“I always joke about letting the haters motivate you. Everybody has that in their life, people who doubt them or make them feel less than they are. It just takes faith and belief in yourself, and you've got to dig deep into that. That has to come from you - nobody's going to give you that.”

“Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.”

“Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.”

“I don't have to have faith, I have experience.”

“It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.”

“A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.”

“There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.”