Faith Quotes

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

- Martha Graham

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

- Julia Ward Howe

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

- Madame de Stael

The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice creates a dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith.

- Helen Gahagan Douglas

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

A belief is not true because it is useful.

- Henri-Frederic Amiel

Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

- William Penn

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

- Helen Keller

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

- Mark Twain

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

I do not mean by this declaration to condemn those who believe otherwise; they have the same right to their belief as I have to mine. But it is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

- Thomas Paine

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

- Henri-Frederic Amiel

Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.

- Sam Harris

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A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands, a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.

- John Galsworthy

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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

- Lillian Hellman

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy

- Francis of Assisi

The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly truth comes by and blows them out.

- Lizette W. Reese

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Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

- Mark Twain

Faith is a passionate intuition.

- William Wordsworth

It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.

- Sam Harris

To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

The faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give of their time and energy to shape the various institutions -- social, economic, and political -- of the common life.

- James Luther Adams