top of page
Faith Quotes


"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."



"Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it."


"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."


"By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified."


"My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason."


"I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed."


"I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist."


"Ah, a breath of fresh air: reasonable faith!!!"


"The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity."



"As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws."



"Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo."


"The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith."


"Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven."



"We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen."


"I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations."



"Belief is better than anything else and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever."


"Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man."


"Because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith."


"Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite."


"While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task."


"The people reposed faith in us and that is why this development work has been able to take place."


"When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times."


"We believe that Jesus has made His home in our hearts, and as long as we carry Him there, God's love will keep our love strong no matter where we are."



"No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part."


"I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith."
bottom of page