Quotes About Faith

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

St. Thomas Aquinas

What makes a religion false? If any religion is right, then maybe they all have to be right. Maybe God doesn't care how you say your prayers, just as long as you say them.

J. Michael Straczynski

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

Mitch Albom

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

It takes a lot of intellect to have faith, which is why so many people only have religiosity.... I'm against people taking the Bible absolutely literally, rather than letting some of it be real fantasy, like Jonah... Faith is best expressed in story.

Madeleine L'Engle

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A life time of belief has convinced me that real, genuine, authentic faith still doubts. I must doubt. Otherwise it's not faith, but witless conformity.

William O'Malley

Faith, however, is not intellectual understanding; faith is a deliberate commitment to the Person of Jesus Christ, even when I can't see the way ahead.

Oswald Chambers

I would just like to remember some words of St. Francis of Assisi which I think are really just particularly apt at the moment. ‘Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope'.

Margaret Thatcher

In whatever you are doing, failure is an option. But fear is not.