Home / Topics / Faith Quotes

Faith Quotes

Browse 11462 quotes about Faith.

Faith Quotes

“The highest historical probability can be adduced in support of the proposition that, if it were possible to annihilate the Bible, and with it all its influences, we should destroy with it the whole spiritual system of the moral world.”

Ifs World Should Whole Spiritual Faith Moral Support Influence Highest Historical Probability Propositions

Author:Edward Everett

“Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.”

“Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.”

Kind Shows Political Faith Politics Moral Confidence Intellectual Capacity

Author:George McGovern

“The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.”

Thinking Seems Faith Religious Moral Poverty Issues Media Gay Abortion Gay Marriage Moral Issues

Author:Jim Wallis

“A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

Faith Moral Streams Sanity Living Things

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.”

Character Lying Faith Asks Moral Perfection Proof True Faith Character Of God Moral Perfection

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.”

“Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?”

People Ifs Should May Done Political Faith Liberty Moral Masters Destruction Ties Proportion Relaxed Deities Despotism Submissive

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.”

Needs Children Soul States Moments Spiritual Faith Culture Three Process Moral Revolution Evolution Thousand Salvation Train Mighty God Convicts Pentecost Quickening

Author:A. C. Dixon

“We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.”

Death Faith Dies Speak Freedom Moral Tongue Milton

Author:William Wordsworth

“The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as each faith tries to protect its doctrines and institution instead of nurturing the evolution of consciousness. If one is not careful to distinguish the genuine insights of a religion from its irrelevant accretions, one can go through life following an inappropriate moral compass.”

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

“Our nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. The outcome of this debate is important-and so is the way we conduct it. The same moral tradition that defines marriage also teaches that each individual has dignity and value in God's sight.”

Way Important Values Faith Individual Nations Moral Teach Tradition Dignity Sight Debate Outcomes Gay Marriage Sanctity Sanctity Of Marriage

Author:George W. Bush

“The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.”

Inspiration Faith Responsibility Moral Source Findings Illusion Deception Unhappiness Personal Responsibility

Author:Pope John Paul II

“When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.”

Men Feels Kind Faith Moral Objects Comfortable Injustice Commit Superiors Pity Virtuous Parallels Sanctions Uncommon Proceeding

Book:The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

Source: The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

“The struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith.”

World Real Might Today Faces Spiritual Faith Moral Struggle Military Roots Decided Tests Army Crisis Bombs Rockets

Author:Ronald Reagan