Faith Quotes

What we, as African Americans, stood on was our faith.

It is not good for us to trust in our merits, in our virtues or our righteousness; but only in God's free pardon, as given us through faith in Jesus Christ.

I'm painfully a realist but ruthlessly an optimist. I think maybe it's because of my faith - I've always got the hope that there is something out there to make it all worthwhile.

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.

I'm always having a crisis of faith, with everything. People who are certain are terrifying to me. That's how religious wars get started.

Royalty mostly seem like members of some anachronistic faith, like the Amish, peculiar in gilded buggies.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.