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 a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was called the Dark Ages.
‐‐ Seth Shostak
Faith is a private issue. At least, I consider it to be one.
‐‐ Darin Strauss
Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing.
‐‐ Vusi Mahlasela
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
‐‐ Alan Watts
Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.
‐‐ Joel Osteen
Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage - or for that matter, in a homelier way, picking out the right fabric for the kitchen curtains, which is also a creative act.
‐‐ Julia Cameron
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
‐‐ Paul Tillich
Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
‐‐ Dean Inge
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
‐‐ Anton Chekhov
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
‐‐ George Sand
Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
‐‐ Paul Simon
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
‐‐ Khalil Gibran
Faith is as essential to the spiritual realm as oxygen is to the natural realm.
‐‐ Ray Comfort
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
‐‐ George Seaton
Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.
‐‐ Cullen Hightower
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
‐‐ Oswald Chambers
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal
Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.
‐‐ Joel Osteen
Faith is important to me.
‐‐ Vera Farmiga
Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.
‐‐ Tony Abbott
Faith is in the eye of the beholder.
‐‐ Tilda Swinton
Faith is like a kernel of wheat.
‐‐ Joe Bob Briggs
Faith is more basic than language or theology.
‐‐ Sydney Carter
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
‐‐ R. Buckminster Fuller
Faith is my foundation because you work on a faith basis that you believe God has his hand on you.
‐‐ Richard DeVos
Faith is never identical with piety.
‐‐ Karl Barth
Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.
‐‐ Sharon Salzberg
Faith is not a political strategy and should not be a political strategy. If it is being used as a tool to garner votes, to convince people they should support one political party or the other, I think that is a huge mistake.
‐‐ John Edwards
Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.
‐‐ John Rhys-Davies
Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
‐‐ Faith Evans
Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
‐‐ Georges Bernanos
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
‐‐ Edith Hamilton
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
‐‐ D. Elton Trueblood
Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
‐‐ Ben Stein
Faith is not contrary to reason.
‐‐ Sherwood Eddy
Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.
‐‐ Joanna Russ
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 is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi
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 not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.
‐‐ Emile Durkheim
Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.
‐‐ Ellen DeGeneres
Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
‐‐ Martin Luther
Faith is personal if it's to be real.
‐‐ Bear Grylls
Faith is reason grown courageous.
‐‐ Sherwood Eddy
Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page.
‐‐ Francis Collins
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
Faith is something that's been created to help people get through life.
‐‐ Judy Parfitt
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher
Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.
‐‐ LaDainian Tomlinson