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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Thomas Aquinas

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.

John Donne

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Henry Ward Beecher

I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

Joel Osteen

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Saint Augustine

God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

Joel Osteen

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

Thomas Aquinas

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Oswald Chambers

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Alan Watts

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

Rick Warren

To me faith means not worrying.

John Dewey

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

Tertullian

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Susan L. Taylor

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

Mahatma Gandhi

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

Mahalia Jackson

The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.

Pope Benedict XVI

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

John Paul Jones

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

George Herbert

People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do.

Tony Dungy

Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

Paul Brunton

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Martin Luther

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

Corazon Aquino

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

Lillian Smith

Faith is a passionate intuition.

William Wordsworth

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Mahatma Gandhi

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.

Desmond Morris

Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

Stephen Samuel Wise

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Laurence Sterne

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Martin Luther

Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child.

Amy Grant

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

John H. Johnson

It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

Owen D. Young

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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

Rose Kennedy

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Khalil Gibran

We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Georges Bernanos

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Thomas Paine

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

John Wooden

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

George Whitefield

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

Emmanuel Teney

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

Ayrton Senna

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.

Paula Abdul

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

Joel Osteen

Have faith in God; God has faith in you.

Edwin Louis Cole

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

Clifford D. Simak

The principle part of faith is patience.

George MacDonald

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

Chuck Palahniuk

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Blaise Pascal

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Rabindranath Tagore

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

Ralph Marston

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Voltaire

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.

Iyanla Vanzant

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

Gregory Peck

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

Alan Watts

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

Charles Studd

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Alan Watts

Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

Billy Graham

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.

David Livingstone

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

Dan Brown

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

Oliver Cromwell

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Mahatma Gandhi

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Michelangelo

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Plato

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Blaise Pascal

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Joel Osteen

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

C. S. Lewis

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Mahatma Gandhi

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.

Charles Stanley

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Ronald Reagan

Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

T. D. Jakes

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.

Robert Browning

God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.

Kelly Clarkson

God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

Dwight L. Moody

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

Thomas More

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

Alphonsus Liguori

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Michelangelo

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

Miguel de Unamuno

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

Elie Wiesel

We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.

Ernest Holmes

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Khalil Gibran

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

B. C. Forbes

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

William Inge

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

D. Elton Trueblood

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.

Paul Tillich

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Javier Bardem

Now the true soldiers of Christ must always be prepared to do battle for the truth, and must never, so far as lies with them, allow false convictions to creep in.

Origen

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

Martin Luther

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Niccolo Machiavelli