The Best Quotes About Faith

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A list of the best faith quotes and sayings, including the names of each speaker or author when available. This list is sorted by popularity, so only the most famous faith quotes are at the top. The authors of these historic faith quotes are displayed next to each quote, so if you see one you like be sure to check out other inspirational faith quotes from that same writer.

This list answers the questions, "What are the best quotes about faith?" and "What are inspirational faith quotes?"

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“Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly upon us. We are the Sacred Band of Thebes. We fight in the forefront, therefore we bleed first. We live, therefore we die.”
Janet Morris, Chris Morris
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Faith lives in honest doubt.
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.
E. M. Forster
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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
James Russell Lowell
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Every man heals himself.
Janet Morris
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron
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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
James Joyce
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As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.
John Donne
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All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
Viktor Frankl
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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Søren Kierkegaard
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Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
Mahatma Gandhi

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The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
Elbert Hubbard
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
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Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. -- Peter 3:15
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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... -- Romans 1:20
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
William Ellery Channing
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
Buckminster Fuller
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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
William James
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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Benjamin Franklin
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The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Benjamin Franklin

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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...
Emily Brontë
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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
W. H. Auden

“Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly upon us. We are the Sacred Band of Thebes. We fight in the forefront, therefore we bleed first. We live, therefore we die.”

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

Every man heals himself.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. -- Peter 3:15

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... -- Romans 1:20

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

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

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?