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To Have Faith Quotes

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
- Henry Brooks Adams

In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.
- Paulo Coelho

It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights..
- Paulo Coelho

In order to have faith in his own path, a warrior does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.
- Paulo Coelho

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
- W H Auden

They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!
- Friedrich Nietzsche

The key for me was to have faith and trust in God to transform me. This was scary because the foundation that once kept me safe and secure was being taken from me!
- Michael Barbarulo

Do you have children? she asked.
No.
Why?
The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.
- Alessandro Baricco

To have faith is to have wings.
- James M Barrie

For to have faith, is to have wings Peter Pan
- James M Barrie

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
- James M Barrie

I'm still discovering, right up to this moment, that it is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures, experiences and perplexities. In so doing, we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. By this-worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world. That, I think, is faith.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to
- Ann Brashares

How did men believe in something that preached love on one hand, yet taught destruction of unbelievers on the other? How did one rationalize belief with no proof? How could they honestly expect him to have faith in something that taught of miracles and wonders in the far past, but carefully gave excuses for why such things didn't occur in the present day?
- Brandon Sanderson

You need to have faith and trust, Moira."
"And a little bit of pixie dust?
- Allison Brennan

I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.
- Nicholas Sparks

You've fallen in love with someone and feel that the both of you was meant to be. However, something or someone is standing in the way..... wait patiently, continue to have faith and set that one free from out of your life if that question ever gets asked.... and in due time your question will be answered.......Jonathan Anthony Burkett
- Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Fatigue can make it hard to have faith. Too much busyness can make it hard to have faith. Too much of too little solitude can impact faith. For that matter, so can a bout of hunger or overwork, anything carried to an extreme. Faith thrives on routine. Look at any monastery and you will see that. Faith keeps on keeping on.
- Julia Cameron

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
- Joseph Campbell

I want to have faith in strangers. I want to have faith in what we're all going to do next. But I'm worried. I see things shifting from United We Stand to God Bless America. I don't believe in God Bless America. I don't believe a higher power is standing beside us and guiding us. I don't believe we're being singled out. I believe much more in United We Stand. I have my doubts, but I want it to be true.
- David Levithan

A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.
- Alvin Dark

Faith is an admirable trait. It's good to have faith in another person. But when faith is used as a substitute for reality, then it becomes a crutch for refusing to deal with that reality.
- Peter David

For I was, as you have already guessed, a collaborator with Destiny, not one who put a pistol to its head and demanded particular treasures. The only thing for me to do was to keep on keeping on, to have faith in my whim, and remember that for me, as for the saints, illumination when it came would probably come from some unexpected source.
- Robertson Davies

It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.
- Dorothy Day

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.
- Roberta Flack

I feel that we should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human beings. I think that, uh, we should use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems, and stop relying on prayer and wishful thinking. If we have faith in ourselves, we won't have to have faith in gods.
- Ruth Hurmence Green

...you have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.
- Philippa Gregory

In some ways I admire Aunt Helen's unwavering certainty in God's divine plan. It must be comforting, to have faith like that. To believe so concretely that there's someonesomethingout there watching guard, keeping us safe, testing us only with what we can handle. I've never believed in anything the way Aunt Helen believes in God.
- Hannah Harrington

There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolution and have faith, I can only conclude that, as prophesied, to have faith will someday be an act of rebellion.
- Criss Jami

Writing is alot like religion, you need to have faith.
- L A Jones

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
- Vince Lombardi

... somebody has to be the pioneer and leave the marks for others to follow... you've got to have some faith in what you're trying to do. It's easy to have faith as long as it goes along with what you already know. But you've got to have faith in us all the way..
- Tom Wolfe

To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.
- Abraham Kuyper

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.
- Louis Lamour

I'm still not a god," he said apologetically. Crick stood behind him and pulled his shoulders back against that wide, strong chest.
"Better than a god," Crick murmured. "You're the reason to have faith.
- Amy Lane

Still, being alone doesn't mean you have to be miserable. In that sense it's different from losing something. You've still got yourself, even if you lose everything else. You've got to have faith in yourself and not get down just because you're on your own.
- Yoko Ogawa

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

To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.
- Ellis Peters

I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.
- Leah Ward Sears

To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.
- Tony Snow

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
- Alan Watts

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