Faith Quotes

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

C. S. Lewis

All are free to believe or not believe all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief.

Jeff Miller

What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.

Benny Hinn

I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

Gene Robinson

I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.

Kate Atkinson

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

Richard Dawkins

Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.

Paulo Coelho

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Alan Watts

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Dalai Lama

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Ronald Reagan

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Blaise Pascal

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

Franz Liszt

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

Paulo Coelho

I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

Blanche Lincoln

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

Mason Cooley

Shake off all fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.

C.S. Lewis