My Faith Quotes

My true religion, my faith in God. He gives me love and compassion. I simply return them by loving and being compassionate towards others. Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple of God. The teachings of God is to love one another as he loves us. We love by respecting and being compassionate, whatever they decide to do with their life
- Ann Marie Aguilar

God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of
this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.
- Paulo Coelho

I'm filled with doubt, especially about my faith.
- Paulo Coelho

This was my voice, but perfectly wise, calm and compassionate. This was what my voice would sound like if I'd only ever experienced love and certainty in my life. How can I describe the warmth of affection in that voice, as it gave me the answer that would forever seal my faith in the divine?
- Elizabeth Gilbert

...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
- Alexandre Dumas

I don't need any trinkets or pictures to remind me of my faithall I need to do is stare out the window at the woods, and see how beautiful they are.
- Lisa Kleypas

Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm;
- W H Auden

It happened, as many things do, imperceptibly, in many ways at once. I date it - the slow crumbling of my faith, the pulverization of my fortress - from the time, about a year after I had begun to preach, when I began to read again. I justified this desire by the fact that I was still in school, and I began, fatally, with Dostoyevsky.
- James Baldwin

Jesus isn't a logo, I'm not promoting some company, some brand. I'm just professing my faith.
- Stephen Baldwin

I'm not putting my faith or life in anyone's hands. All that ever got me was screwed, and my ass is currently sore from it. (Wren)
Nice imagery there, tiger. Graphic. Ever think of writing children's books? (Fury)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

I prefer a world with many beliefs and religions.
It stimulates my faith to keep growing day by day.
- Toba Beta

Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.
- William Peter Blatty

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.
- Donna Brazile

Surely--But I am very off from that.
From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrow
that was my clean naivete and my faith.
This morning, men deliver wounds and death.
They will deliver death and wounds tomorrow.
And I doubt all. You. Or a violet.
- Gwendolyn Brooks

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
- Dalai Lama

I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone.
- Nicholas Sparks

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
- Pearl S Buck

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mahatma Gandhi

I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?
- John Bunyan

With that in mind, I try to imagine the greatest gift I could've given my father. And as sleep descends on me, the answer seems strangely clear: my faith in his idols. That was what he wanted all along - to feel that we were united by something permanent, to know that as long as he and I believed in the same thing, we would never be apart.
- Ian Caldwell

They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.
- Gilbert K Chesterton

I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.
- Donald Cargill

My faith demands - this is not optional - my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I can, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference. - Jimmy Carter
- Jimmy Carter

I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
- Jimmy Carter

I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.
- Jimmy Carter

My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood.
- Jim Caviezel

My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.
- Marian Wright Edelman

I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.
- Madonna Ciccone

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My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that.
"It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.
- David Levithan

My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there's no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.
- John Coltrane

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls.
- John Coltrane

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
- Norman Cousins

I've lost my faith in science.
- Bette Davis

Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.
- Billy Ray Cyrus

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.
- Miley Cyrus

Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me.
- Puff Daddy

For she had embodied the Great Perhaps - she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.
- John Green

I'm not embarrassed by my faith, and I'm also not embarrassed by my doubt.
- John Green

My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorseand, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the truth ofa proposition that I don't understand. So far, my faith is not unlike religious faith, but I am not in the slightest bit motivated to go to my death rather than recant the formulas of physics. Watch: E doesn't equal mc2, it doesn't, it doesn't! I was lying, so there!
- Daniel Dennett

As impossible, in fact, as keeping the moon...So I looked down the line at all my friends, knowing I would always remember this. And then I turned my gaze back up to the sky, and put my faith in that moon and its return.
- Sarah Dessen

My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.
- Olusegun Obasanjo

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
- Andrea Dworkin

My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him.
- Allyson Felix

I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.
- Allyson Felix

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.
- Nelson Mandela

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.
- Aretha Franklin

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
- Barack Obama

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.
- Barack Obama

How long has it been since you've eaten?
My faith is all the nourishment I need.
Faith is like porridge. Better with milk and honey.
- George R R Martin

Well Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist and I really believe he is AntichristI will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave', as you call yourself! But how are you? I see I have frightened yousit down and tell me all the news.
- Leo Tolstoy

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.
- Jim Garrison

I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.
- Ed Gillespie

My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?
- Tom Robbins

I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church.
- Jane Grey

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.
- Jane Grey

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.
- John Hawley

It is my faith and conviction that the Constitution came not alone of the brain and purpose of man, but of the inspiration of God.
- Gordon B Hinckley

You are my armor and my sword, my faith and my tresure, everything I'm fighting for.
- Alice Hoffman

It would not be fair to say that the fire stole my faith, since in truth it has been slipping away from me all my life, flipping between my fingers like a shiny little minnow--such a far cry from the trophy salmon that dangled from my father's fist.
- Elissa Janine Hoole

I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business.
- Kathy Ireland

I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.
- Thomas S Monson

I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.
- Thomas S Monson

Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.
- Thomas S Monson

I have fallen short in my life, but my faith has always brought me home.
- Edward Kennedy

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
- Jackie Kennedy

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.
- David Knopfler

God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down.
- C S Lewis

But I should note, for all my resistance to organized religion, that I don't believe Charlie could have quit drinking without it. It provided him with a way to structure his behavior, and a way to explain that behavior, both past and present, to himself. Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events? -- and perhaps it is my avid reading that has been my faith all along.
- Curtis Sittenfeld

Perhaps fiction has, for me, served a similar purpose--what is a narrative arc if not the imposition of order on disparate events?--and perhaps it is my avid reading that has been my faith all along.
- Curtis Sittenfeld

I've received a lot of positive feedback from both the secular and Christian markets. People seem to be receiving it with open arms and hearts, and are interested in the stories I want to share about my relationship with God and my faith.
- Brian Littrell

My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don't put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.
- Antonio Machado

Nothing renews my faith in humanity more than the exchange of compassion so profound that mere words cannot embrace it.
- Tiffany Madison

My nature has always been to fight. My faith forces me to forgive.
- Cindy Martinusen Coloma

In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.
- Jon Meacham

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.
- Olivier Messiaen

When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my faith, the experience is euphoric. I see in their eyes the trueness of the story.
- Donald Miller

When my faith is getting weak
And I feel like giving in
You breathe into me again...
- Karen Marie Moning

And though I walk home alone, my faith in love is still devout.
- Morrissey

Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
- Samantha Morton

Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.
- Carrieanne Moss

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.
- Vince Neil

I have never lost my faith in God.
- Maureen Ohara

I would love to hear all types of Christian artists played all over the world. I'd love to hear good, positive mainstream music played all over the place. I'd love to be able to bring music together. But I have not deserted Christ. I have not deserted my faith.
- Stacie Orrico

I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?' In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. But I was always like... why?
- Katy Perry

Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith. (Br. Cadfael)
- Ellis Peters

My faith has strengthen. God has shown me through my son with Down syndrome not take anything for granted. I'm more grateful.
- Yvonne Pierre

I haven't lost my faith, but I've lost my religion. I still believe in something so deeply.... I've never really gotten past that quote from Anne Frank in her diary, where she says that people are really good at heart. But I feel like the Catholic Church no the Catholic hierarchy has been disinviting people like me, and especially women like me, for so many years that I finally took the hint.
- Anna Quindlen

I don't worry about being in a hurry any more, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.
- Martha Reeves

My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.
- Anne Rice

And tis' my faith that every flower enjoys the air it breathes.
- Nora Roberts

It is something that is called MDS. It is a rare blood disorder that affects the bone marrow. I'm going to beat this. My doctors say it and my faith says it.
- Robin Roberts

I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.
- Smokey Robinson

My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys.
- Ann Romney

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
- Samuel Rutherford

Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we mustif we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdomwe must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith.
- Margaret Sanger

I have put my faith in the Lord, and I really believe He's taking care of them. They're too beautiful and precious that He's not going to let anything happen to them.
- Susan Smith

My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it.
- Joanna Southcott

I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.
- Scott Stapp

It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.
- Scott Stapp

I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.
- Cat Stevens

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.
- Cat Stevens

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.
- George Stigler

I was a terrible believer in things,but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't know where to put my faith,or if there was such a place,or even what the word faith meant, in all of it's complexity. Everything seemed to be possibly potent and possibly fake.
- Cheryl Strayed

My mother used to tell me to be a leader, never a follower. As a respect to my the words of my mother, I cannot place my faith in God or anyone else, because if I do, I am merely a follower. In order to respect my mother's wishes, I had to dethrone God himself and claim the title as leader.
- Lionel Suggs

Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.
- Pat Summitt

God uses people to help others. I only pray my faith is strong enough to get me through what I have to face.
- Jennifer Hudson Taylor

My faith is a very important part of my life. I do not feel that I have become president of this country by accident, but that I have been chosen because nobody can accuse me of favouring the Albanian Muslims or the Orthodox.
- Boris Trajkovski

You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.
- Robert Vaughn

In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.
- Linda Vester

My Faith is in the Younger Generation, the Modern Generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like Lions.
- Swami Vivekananda

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.
- Rick Wakeman

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
- Denzel Washington