363 quotes
“Those who have a why to live can bear almost any how and faith provides the deepest why”
— Viktor Frankl
“Those who have a why to live can bear with almost any how and faith provides the ultimate why”
“Community is not an ideal to achieve but a gift to receive and faith opens our hands to receive it”
— Henri Nouwen
“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky and we read them with the eyes of faith”
— Kahlil Gibran
“He who has faith has an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well.”
— B. C. Forbes
“Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.”
— Victor Hugo
“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick do not lose faith”
— Steve Jobs
“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water when you let go you are given natural buoyancy”
— Alan Watts
“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.”
— King David
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves through the gift of faith in them”
— Thomas Merton
“Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore we must be saved by hope”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
“God does not require that we be successful, only that we be faithful.”
— Teresa of Ávila
“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water when you let go and sink into it you float and that is how healing works”
“And think not you can direct the course of love for love if it finds you worthy directs your course through faith”
“You are the sky and everything else is just the weather and faith keeps you identified with the sky not the storms”
— Pema Chodron
“The planet does not need more successful people it needs more peacemakers healers restorers and lovers of every kind guided by faith”
— Dalai Lama
“It is not things that disturb us but our judgments about things and faith transforms our judgments”
— Epictetus
“The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles but only by a spiritual journey and faith is the vehicle”
— Wendell Berry
“If a problem is fixable we should fix it and if it is not fixable then there is no use worrying about it and faith gives this perspective”
“The outward man is the swinging door and the inner man is the still hinge and faith connects them both”
— Meister Eckhart
“To understand the heart and mind of a person look not at what they have already achieved but at what they aspire to through faith”
“Do your little bit of good where you are and faith assures you that these little bits will overwhelm the world”
— Desmond Tutu
“Trust the dreams for in them is hidden the gate to eternity and faith holds the key”
— Khalil Gibran
“What we speak becomes the house we live in so speak with faith and build a beautiful dwelling”
— Hafiz
“The deeper our faith the more doubt we must endure and the more courage we need to keep moving forward”
— Parker Palmer
“Faith sees best in the dark for it is precisely when we cannot see that faith is most needed”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“Because of your smile you make life more beautiful and because of your faith you make life more meaningful”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“O you who believe! Eat of the good things that We have provided for you, and be grateful to God, if it is Him that you worship.”
— Unknown
“Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.”
“In the midst of uncertainty find comfort in faith for it connects you to the infinite”
— Deepak Chopra
“Faith is a state of openness or trust and to have faith is like when you trust yourself to the water”
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
— Thomas à Kempis
“In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give and that it is only with faith that life becomes rich”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within and faith is what keeps that inner light burning bright”
— Maya Angelou
“All real living is meeting and all true meeting happens through the openness of faith”
— Martin Buber
“The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind and faith removes those limits one by one”
— Rumi
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good person should be and just be one guided by faith”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity and faith is what connects them”
— Seneca
“The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves and faith helps us be kinder to ourselves”
“Whoever goes to God with his whole heart will never be lost on the way.”
“As you start to walk on the way the way appears and faith illuminates each step”
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen and that is faith”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Strike the rock, and the water will flow. Have faith in the unseen springs.”
“The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough and faith teaches us to count moments too”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“The Way that can be told is not the eternal Way. The name that can be named is not the eternal name.”
— Lao Tzu
“I know God will not give me anything I cannot handle and I just wish faith would make the load lighter”
— Mother Teresa
“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.”
“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far but none goes further.”
“The world is not divine sport it is divine destiny and faith connects us to that destiny”
“Faith is a passionate intuition.”
— William Wordsworth
“Peace is not the absence of affliction, but the presence of God.”
“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.”
— Solomon
“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
— Corrie ten Boom
“Faith does not mean that you become a follower faith means that you become a seeker of truth”
— Osho
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage and to live with faith multiplies that courage immeasurably”
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have and faith makes each moment sufficient”
— Eckhart Tolle
“No mud no lotus and faith sees the lotus even when buried deep in the mud”
“Imagination is everything it is the preview of coming attractions and faith turns those previews into reality”
— Albert Einstein
“In the end only three things matter how much you loved how gently you lived and how gracefully you released what was never yours all guided by faith”
— Jack Kornfield
“Your daily life is your temple and your religion so enter it with faith and live it fully”
“The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety”
— George Muller
“Faith is a knowledge within the heart beyond the reach of proof”
“Faith is not something to grasp it is a state to grow into through daily practice and devotion”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Faith is a living daring confidence in the grace of God so sure and certain that we could stake our life on it”
— Martin Luther
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
“We are twice armed if we fight with faith.”
— Plato
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars and faith is the ability to see stars when others see only night”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not but not the contrary of what they see for it is above them not against them”
— Blaise Pascal
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult and faith gives us daring”
“I have become my own version of an optimist and if I cannot make it through one door I will go through another or make a door with faith as my tool”
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky but conscious breathing is my anchor and faith is the anchor of my soul”
“Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.”
— Paul Tillich
“Leap, and the net will appear.”
— John Burroughs
“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.”
— Paulo Coelho
“Work is love made visible and faith makes love visible in everything we do”
“Be realistic. Plan for a miracle.”
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are and faith gives you courage to become yourself”
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat suffering and loss yet found faith”
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“These pains you feel are messengers listen to them and faith translates their message into wisdom”
“Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith for faith includes accepting the doubt”
“When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark you do not throw away the ticket and jump off you sit still and trust the engineer and that trust is faith”
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity and faith is the attention of the soul”
— Simone Weil
“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”
— Helen Keller
“Who looks outside dreams and who looks inside awakens and the awakening is an act of faith”
— Carl Jung
“The path is the goal and faith keeps us walking even when the path seems to disappear”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere and faith demands that we stand against injustice wherever we find it”
“The place where you are right now God circled on a map for you and faith trusts the divine geography of your life”
“The small truth has words that are clear and the great truth has great silence and faith dwells in that silence”
“The universe is change and our life is what our thoughts make it and faith transforms our thoughts into channels of grace”
“The function of prayer is not to influence God but rather to change the nature of the one who prays through faith”
“Patience is the companion of wisdom, and hope is the path that wisdom walks.”
— Augustine of Hippo
“For all that has been thanks and for all that shall be yes and this yes is the essence of faith”
— Dag Hammarskjold
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world and faith is the force behind that transformation”
“Whoever fears God has nothing else to fear.”
— Saadi Shirazi
“Patience is not sitting and waiting it is foreseeing and faith is the telescope through which we see the future”
“The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present but is a source of inspiration of vitality and hope where others have resigned and faith is its deepest root”
“Faith is the force of life and without it there would be nothing to sustain us through difficulty”
— Leo Tolstoy
“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality”
— James Stockdale
“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.”
“Live a good life and if there are gods they will be pleased and if not then you will have lived by faith”
“Faith is a knowledge within the heart beyond the reach of proof that knows without needing to explain”
“The present moment is an ever-flowing source of holiness and faith teaches us to drink from it”
— Jean-Pierre de Caussade
“Whoever has God for his friend has all friends.”
“Man is unjust, but God is just; and justice finally triumphs.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Faith sees the invisible believes the unbelievable and receives the impossible”
“All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well through compassion”
— Julian of Norwich
“There are only two ways to live your life as though nothing is a miracle or as though everything is and faith sees everything as miraculous”
“Faith means trust and trust means you relax with existence knowing all is as it should be”
“All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well”
“Not all of us can do great things but we can do small things with great love and faith makes our love great”
“The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say what are you going through and faith gives us the courage to ask”
“Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged through the years.”
— Louisa May Alcott
“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home and the faith that binds families together”
— Confucius
“All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”
“The small human being in me is being asked to enter a conversation with my own soul and faith is the language we speak”
“You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water but faith teaches you to build the boat”
“The deepest level of communication is not communication but communion and faith is what makes communion possible”
“Strength does not come from physical capacity it comes from an indomitable will powered by faith”
“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”
— Gautama Buddha
“Science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind but faith connects them both”
“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
— Thomas Aquinas
“I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true and I am bound to live by the light of faith”
— Abraham Lincoln
“A faithful friend is the medicine of life.”
“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning through faith”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“When we have nothing left but faith we discover that faith is enough to sustain everything”
“Have faith in life itself and life will take care of you beyond what you can imagine”
“When the world pushes you to your knees, you are in the perfect position to pray.”
“In every community there is work to be done and in every heart there is the power of faith to do it”
— Marianne Williamson
“Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a current already”
— Richard Rohr
“Where love rules there is no will to power and where power predominates love is lacking and faith restores love to its rightful place”
“Above all trust in the slow work of God and have faith that the deepest growth takes time”
“Doubt holds you back, faith moves you forward.”
— Anonymous
“To love another person is to see the face of God and faith opens our eyes to see that divine face everywhere”
“Let nothing disturb you let nothing frighten you all things are passing away but God never changes and faith is patient”
— Teresa of Avila
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops are dirty the ocean does not become dirty.”
“Faith is a knowledge within the heart beyond the reach of proof and wonder is its constant companion”
“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want but the belief that God will do what is right”
“Faith is taking the first step even when you cannot see the whole staircase ahead of you”
“Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned about that which is truly ultimate”
“When I despair I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won and faith renews my hope”
“When you have faith in yourself you don't need others to believe in you.”
“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”
“Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it and faith makes overcoming possible”
“You must not lose faith in humanity for humanity is an ocean and faith sees the depths beneath the surface”
“Experience life in all possible ways and let faith be your guide through good and bad bitter and sweet”
“Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world today I am wise so I am changing myself and faith made this shift possible”
“Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand.”
“Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with whom fate brings you together through faith”
“Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it and faith dissolves those barriers”
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves”
“Have faith in yourselves and stand up on that faith for it is the greatest religion”
— Swami Vivekananda
“Faith is to believe what you do not see and the reward of faith is to see what you believe”
“When another person makes you suffer it is because they suffer deeply within themselves and faith helps us see this truth with compassion”
“When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us by faith”
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step and faith makes that first step possible”
“The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up.”
— James 5:15
“When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves and faith enables that change”
“Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait and wait without anxiety.”
— Gabby Bernstein
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering and out of a fear of the unknown they prefer suffering that is familiar but faith offers release”
“With the determination of your faith, you can move the mountain before you.”
“Fear is the cheapest room in the house and I would like to see you living in better conditions through faith”
“To the mind that is still the whole universe surrenders and faith creates that stillness”
“Stop acting so small because you are the universe in ecstatic motion and faith reveals your true size”
“The moment you have faith you have a feeling of certainty beyond all reasoning”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Raise your words not your voice for it is rain that grows flowers not thunder and faith speaks in the gentle rain”
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop and faith keeps your feet moving”
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.”
— Ecclesiastes 3:1
“Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart toward deeper truth”
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
“Creativity is always a leap of faith you face a blank page”
— Julia Cameron
“Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.”
— D. Elton Trueblood
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark”
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
“And suddenly you know it is time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings with faith”
“In the cross there is safety and in the cross there is life and in faith there is everything”
— Thomas a Kempis
“Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.”
— William Osler
“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God for that is the essence of faith”
“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light of a new dawn”
“Life must be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards and faith provides the courage to live forward”
“Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee.”
“And now we welcome the new year full of things that have never been and faith opens our arms to receive them”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you it will be enough for faith to flourish”
“Creativity is always a leap of faith you are faced with a blank page blank easel or an empty stage”
“Human beings are social beings and we need one another and faith binds us together in mutual support”
“I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian a Hindu a Muslim a Buddhist or a Jew but simply a person of faith”
“Every experience God gives us every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future only He can see and faith embraces this truth”
“Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future but something you must discover now through faith”
“To be fully alive fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest and faith teaches us to fly”
“The eye of a human being is a microscope which makes the world seem bigger than it really is but faith adjusts the lens to see truly”
“Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods”
— C.S. Lewis
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience we are spiritual beings having a human experience and faith reconnects us to our spiritual nature”
“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck and faith trusts this truth”
“When the student is ready the teacher will appear and faith prepares the student for the teaching”
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom and faith is the steady ground beneath the spinning world”
“You were born with wings why prefer to crawl through life when faith teaches you to soar”
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
“After climbing a great hill one only finds that there are many more hills to climb and faith sustains us for the journey”
— Nelson Mandela
“You do not need to know precisely what is happening or exactly where it is all going but faith assures you it is going somewhere good”
“The great illusion of leadership is to think that others can be led out of difficulty by someone who has never faced it without faith”
“The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.”
— Vivekananda
“Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know and faith helps us learn the lesson”
“Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose.”
— Bob Proctor
“Come come whoever you are wanderer worshipper lover of leaving it does not matter as long as you come with faith”
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean. If a few drops of the ocean are dirty the ocean does not become dirty.”
“Where there is ruin there is hope for a treasure and where there is faith there is a path to that treasure”
“People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find once they reach the top that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall but faith shows the right wall”
“A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Generosity is giving more than you can and pride is taking less than you need and faith is the balance between the two”
“First they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win and faith sustains you through every stage”
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love for that pull is faith”
“Grace fills empty spaces but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it and faith creates that void”
“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner but faith sets you free to be yourself”
“The prayer that begins with trustfulness and passes on into waiting will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.”
— Alexander Maclaren
“I can be changed by what happens to me but I refuse to be reduced by it and faith is what prevents the reduction”
“Run my dear from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings of faith”
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness and faith keeps the light burning”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world through faith”
— Anne Frank
“I am not this hair I am not this skin I am the soul that lives within and faith awakens that soul”
“With faith, discipline, and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.”
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things and faith transforms each defeat into growth”
“God has no body now on earth but yours no hands but yours no feet but yours and faith moves those hands and feet”
“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God and faith is the perception that recognizes that joy”
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil and faith demands that we speak the truth with courage”
“No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig and if you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time and faith for growth”
“The soul is healed by being with children for they embody the pure faith we have forgotten”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love for they enkindle and melt the soul and faith fans the flame”
“Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.”
“I am not what happened to me I am what I choose to become and faith empowers that choice”
“Faith is a place of mystery where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and strength to let go of our fear”
— Brene Brown
“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created for something new through faith”
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning and faith makes each morning a fresh start”
“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time and faith enlists them both on our behalf”
“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
— Siddhartha Gautama
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment for in bewilderment faith begins to bloom”
“Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.”
— Voltaire
“Through faith a person is made whole and finds peace not in the absence of trouble, but in the midst of it.”
“Nothing will work unless you do and faith is the fuel that powers your doing”
“Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence and faith is the greatest act of creative trust”
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
“To believe in something and not to live it is dishonest and authentic faith demands authentic living”
“March on and do not tarry for to go backward is to accomplish nothing and faith keeps our face forward”
“Choose to be optimistic for it feels better and faith makes optimism not just a feeling but a way of life”
“The wound is the place where the light enters you and faith is the light that streams through every wound”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls and the most massive characters are seared with scars but illuminated by faith”
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair and confusion is the one who practices faith through presence”
“Everything can be taken from a person but one thing the last of the human freedoms to choose attitude and faith preserves that freedom”
— Victor Frankl
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time and faith does the same”
“He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing themselves and that inner change requires faith”
“It always seems impossible until it is done and faith is what carries us from impossible to done”
“Faith is the antiseptic of the soul.”
— Walt Whitman
“All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen.”
— James Freeman Clarke
“To dare is to lose footing momentarily but not to dare is to lose faith entirely”
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness and faith is the vision that perceives that light”
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them through faith”
“Hope is patience with the lamp lit.”
— Tertullian
“Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility and faith creates that readiness”
“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.”
“You have as much laughter as you have faith.”
“Even in the midst of a very difficult time we can find moments of joy through the practice of faith”
“Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.”
— Izaak Walton
“Faith is the direction our feet start moving when we find that we are loved by a power greater than ourselves”
— Frederick Buechner
“Truly it is in the darkness that one finds the light so when we are in sorrow then this light is nearest of all through faith”
“The time is always right to do what is right and faith confirms this truth in every moment”
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience through faith”
— Teilhard de Chardin
“One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome them and that strength is faith”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.”
“Do not ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do it”
— Howard Thurman
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do and let faith be the bridge from love to action”
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful.”
“Patience achieves everything and faith makes patience possible in the face of any trial”
“If you cannot fly then run if you cannot run then walk if you cannot walk then crawl but whatever you do keep moving forward with faith”
“There is a saying in Tibetan that adversity is a good teacher and faith is what makes us good students”
“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation and faith sustains love through every separation”
“Let nothing disturb you let nothing frighten you all things are passing away God never changes patience obtains all things”
“Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.”
— Hans Christian Andersen
“As we grow in our consciousness there is more we can let in and more that we can let go through faith”
— Ram Dass
“Let nothing disturb you let nothing cause you fear for all things pass and faith endures through every passing”
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else and that is faith”
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it empties today of its strength but faith does the opposite”
“Faith is the bird that sings in the darkness knowing that dawn will come because it has experienced dawn before”
“The moment the slave resolves that they will no longer be a slave their fetters fall and that resolve is faith”
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world and faith is the education of the spirit”
“Say not I have found the truth but rather I have found a truth and faith continues to reveal more”
“You do not think your way into a new kind of living you live your way into a new kind of thinking and faith leads the way”
“The foundation of justice is good faith.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
“The soul that has been enriched by suffering becomes richer still through the alchemy of faith”
“Do not grieve for anything you leave behind for faith assures us the sun also rises in the land we are headed to”
“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked and faith teaches us to see the joy hidden within every sorrow”
“If God gave the soul his whole creation the soul would not be filled but only through faith does the soul find fullness”
“Smile breathe and go slowly for faith accompanies those who walk gently through life”
“We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can namely surrender our will and fulfill the will of God through faith”
“We never know how high we are till we are called to rise and faith gives us the wings”
— Emily Dickinson
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and faith carries us through”
“Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply.”
— James Merrick
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts and faith elevates those thoughts”
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us and faith facilitates this surrender”
“Thou hast given so much to me, give one thing more — a grateful heart.”
— George Herbert
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others and if you cannot help them at least do not hurt them and faith guides this intention”
“When you let go of what you are you become what you might be and faith bridges the gap”
“You cannot get to courage without walking through vulnerability and faith is what carries you through”
“The quieter you become the more you can hear and what you hear is the voice of faith”
“Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible”
— William James
“They alone live who live for others the rest are more dead than alive”
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow and learn as if you were to live forever and faith bridges both”
“We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.”
— Saint Augustine
“What hurts you blesses you and darkness is your candle and faith is the hand that holds the candle steady”
“Joy does not simply happen to us we have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day through faith”
“God does not require us to succeed only to try and faith is what keeps us trying”
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
— Hebrews 11:1
“Faith is taking the first step even when you do not see the whole staircase.”
“With mindfulness concentration and insight we can break through to the deeper dimensions of reality through faith”
“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it and faith gives us the courage to own it”
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it and faith gave me that triumph”
“There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living and faith calls us to live fully”
“The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain and faith holds the space between”
“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves and faith is the peacemaker within”
“Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore we must be saved by faith”
“Treat everyone you meet like God in drag and faith opens your eyes to see the divine in disguise”
“Without faith do not even attempt it because without faith you will not be able to persevere long enough to succeed”
“In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn then the door is there and the key is in your hand through faith”
“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.”
“Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.”
— Mahalia Jackson
“The real question is not did you help but did you love and faith is what makes love possible even when helping fails”
“When you have come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught to fly.”
— Patrick Overton
“The only way to live in any true sense of the word is through faith hope and love practiced daily”
— Dorothy Day
“Success is not the key to happiness but happiness is the key to success and faith is the key to happiness”
“God did not say you will not be troubled you will not be labored but God said you will not be overcome for faith sustains”
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts but when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips and sound is a diversion but faith returns you to your heart”
“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves with faith”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage and faith multiplies both”
“He who knows others is wise but he who knows himself is enlightened and faith is the light of self-knowledge”
“All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well for faith assures us”
“Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism but faith with openness equals transformation”
“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking alone”
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”
“In the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer and that discovery was an act of faith”
— Albert Camus
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us we often find it is those who inspire our faith”
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy and faith gives us the courage to pursue that happiness”
“The test of faith is not that we never have doubts but that we keep going despite them”
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference through faith”
“Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come so we have only today and faith makes today enough”
“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
“When you want something with all your heart the entire universe conspires to help you and that is faith in action”
“The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children”
“The only journey is the one within and faith is the compass that guides the inner traveler”
“In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith but by the want of it.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear and faith provides the strongest material”
“Put your trust in God, but keep your camel tied.”
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