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Faith Quotes


"My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters."


"That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me."


"When you saw a wounded who cry out for help,you may be the one sent by God to bring a favor."



"Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active."


"In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith."


"An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties."


"If you desire faith, then you have faith enough."


"Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith."



"Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?"


"The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God."



"We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once."


"Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong, and has increased more than 75 percent in the last decade."


"Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them."


"Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to."


"Repentance is root of regeneration."


"To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy."


"I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers."


"I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting."


"Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith."


"All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy."


"And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens."


"The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty ."
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