All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, ,more active, more calm, is, I fear a mistaken and superstitious belief.--John K. Lavater
And I said to the one who stood at the gate of the year, "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the Unknown." And he replied, "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way."--Minnie Haskins
Any faith ... which only sees itself as either victim or dominant, will not grow, but collapse under the weight of its own delusions.--Mona Siddiqui (Thought for the Day, September 23, 2015)
Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with.--Max Planck
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.--Robert H. Schuller
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
At the point where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.--Robert Brault
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.--Mother Teresa
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
The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.--Ramakrishna
Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishn left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself.—Stephen Levine
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It's only you and I with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.--Steven Pressfield (Do the Work)
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.--Henry Ward Beecher
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.--Leo Buscaglia
Faith and initiative rightly combined remove mountainous barriers and achieve the unheard and miraculous. An enthusiastic attitude is nothing more than faith in action.--Henry Chester
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.--Mahalia Jackson
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.--Albert Pike
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.--Voltaire
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened.--Charles Spurgeon
Faith is a continuation of reason.--William Adams
Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whet's one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.--Mohandas Gandhi
Faith is a higher faculty than reason.--Henry Christopher Bailey
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.--Charles Henry Parkhurst (Sermons: Walking by Faith)
Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.--Mitch Albom (Have a Little Faith: a True Story)
Faith is a knowledge within the heart beyond the reach of proof.--Kahlil Gibron
Faith is affirming success before it comes. Faith is making claims to victory before it is achieved.--Robert Schuller
Faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects.--Ralph W. Trine
Faith is better understood as a verb than a noun, as a process than a possession. It is an on-again, off-again rather than once-and-for-all. Faith is not sure where you're going, but going anyway.--Frederick Buechner
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.--Blaise Pascal
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog--the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.--Corrie ten Boom (Tramp for the Lord)
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.--Edith Hamilton (Witness to the Truth)
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.--Elton Trueblood
Faith is not something to be sought after. Faith is something to be discovered within ourselves.--Norma Hawkins
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.--Mahatma Gandhi
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.--Max Lucado (He Still Moves Stones)
Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.--Sherwood Eddy
Faith is spiritualized imagination.--Henry Ward Beecher
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.--Martin Luther King, Jr.
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.--C.S. Lewis
Faith is the belief in the unknown. Faith heals, faith creates, faith works wonders, faith moves mountains.--Sivananda
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.--Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see.--William Newton Clarke
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.--Mary McLeod Bethune
Faith is the gift God gives us. Trust is the gift we give God.--Bill Tamplen
Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite.--Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.--St. Augustine
Faith - is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not.--Emily Dickinson
Faith is the quiet cousin of courage.--Judith Hanson Lasater
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.--Helen Keller
Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.--Dan Brown (Angels & Demons)
Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.--Madeleine L’Engle
Faith ... must be enforced by reason... When faith becomes blind it dies.--Mahatma Gandhi
Faith receives; love gives. No one will be able to receive without faith. No one will be able to give without love.--Gospel of Philip
Faith supplies staying power. ... Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you.--Norman Vincent Peale
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.--Philip Gulley (Home Town Tales
Fear ends where faith begins.--Giorgio A. Dano
Fear looks; faith jumps. Faith never fails to obtain its object. ... I am not here to entertain you, but to get you to the place where you can laugh at the impossible.--Smith Wigglesworth
Grace is something you can never get but only be given.--Frederick Buechner
The great lesson from the true mystics ... is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's back yard.--Abraham H. Maslow(Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences)
The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.--Abraham Maslow
A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.--Fiona Macleod
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
The highest revelation is that God is in every man.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.--William Allen White
I never saw a moor; I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be.
I never spoke with God, Nor visited in heaven; Yet certain am I of the spot As if the chart were given.--Emily Dickinson
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.--Wilson Mizner
I thought that being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was, in other words, and it was not until this project failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness.--Barbara Brown Taylor (Leaving Church)
If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love and faith go together, they complete each other.--Mother Teresa
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.--Mahatma Gandhi
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
If we become completely whole-hearted we will have love for all people and will seek in each person what is most holy, what God has inspired in him or her. And only then will there be no danger of softening or twisting our witness. Why? Because the capacity of our faith will no longer be narrow. If we are not broadhearted, we have not yet grasped the meaning of faith. We must always be ready to be newly led in our faith, even through the tiniest atom of godliness we find in others. It is that which leads us to the kingdom of God. We affirm that there is something of God in all people - something of the light. It may only gleam now, but it will eventually lead to complete illumination.--Eberhard Arnold
If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do muchwhat as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.--John Locke
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.--Schlegel
In essence, prayer is communion with mystery. And for that reason, there can be no one right way to do it, no prescription for prayer that will minister to everyone's needs. ... However, perhaps there is one requisite: that our heart be in it.--Sherry Ruth Anderson and Patricia Hopkins (The Feminine Face of God)
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.--Blaise Pascal
In my more lucid moments I know that God is right here, right now; that God is the luminous mystery at the heart of creation and that God is here in the joys and sorrows of the world. And I try to see God in everything and treat all life with reverence.--Sy Safransky (in "Beginner's Mind" by Gillian Kendal in The Sun January 2014)
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?--Charles Lindbergh
It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.--Harry Emerson Fosdick
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.--Muhammad Ali
Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.--Roy R. Gilson
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
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.--Miguel de Unamuno (Poesias)
Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.--George Lancaster Spalding
Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.--Mahatma Gandhi
Most of God is unknowable, and we should probably be grateful for that.--Nadia Bolz-Weber ("On Seeing the Underside and Seeing God: Tattoos, Tradition, and Grace", On Being, September 5, 2013)
No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.--Elsa Einstein
Not Truth, but Faith, it is That keeps the world alive.--Edna St. Vincent Millay {"Interim" Renascence)
A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear.--George Macdonald (Sir Gibbie)
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.--Thornton Wilder
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.--Mohandas K. Gandhi (Non-Violence in Peace and War)
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues--faith and hope.--Charles Dickens (Nicholas Nickleby)
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right; by these we reach divinity.--John Donne
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.--Susan L. Taylor
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.--Mohandas Gandhi
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.--Isaac Watts
The soul can split the sky in two And let the face of God shine through.--Edna St. Vincent Millay ("Renascence")
The spiritual life is the way of walking with God instead of walking alone.--Elinor MacDonald
The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now to where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.--Anthony de Mello
Spirituality does not "separate" you from the world; it allows you to connect with All There Is, and that includes your life here.--Iris Belhayes
There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.--Fulton J. Sheen
There is no such thing as a spiritual journey; what there is, is a spiritual awakening.--Unknown
The thing about me is, I don't care what religion you are. If someone is attacking your religion, I will have your back, and I will defend you. I think that is the most repulsive thing a person can do, attack another person's faith.--Kirstie Alley
This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek.--Terry Tempest Williams (Leap)
Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth.--Nido Qubein
To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives; it is the only way we can leave the future open.--Lillian Smith
To leap across an abyss, one is better served by faith than doubt.--William James
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.--G. K. Chesterton
To me faith is not just a noun but also a verb.--Jimmy Carter
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.--Dean William Ralph Inge ("Confessio Fidei" Outspoken Essays: Second Series)
We need passion in our faith! Instead of praying, "If I should die before I wake," we should pray, "Lord wake me up before I die!"--Tony Campolo
A weak faith is weakened by predicaments and catastrophes, whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.--Victor Frankl
What healthy religion is saying is that the real life is both now and later. You have to taste the Real first of all now. The constant pattern, however, is that most Christians either move both backwards (religion as nostalgia) or into the distant future (religion as carrot on the stick) and consistently avoid where everything really happens and matters—the present moment.--Richard Rohr
When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves.--Criss Jami
When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.--Patrick Overton
Yes, I have doubted. I have wandered off the path. I have been lost. But I always returned. ... My faith has wavered but has saved me.--Helen Hayes
You are a part of the universe, no less than the stars and the trees, and you have a right to be here. And whether it is clear to you or not, no doubt the universe is unfolding as t should.--Desiderata
You do build in darkness if you have faith. When the light returns you have made yourself a fortress which is impregnable to certain kinds of trouble; you may even find yourself needed and sought by others as a beacon in their dark.--Olga Rosmanith
You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you.--Julia Cameron (God is No Laughing Matter)
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.--Frank Crane
You search for God, and seek to find Him here. Or you seek to find Him there. Why need you to look in the corners of the room when He entirely fills the room?--Ormond McGill