Inspirational Quotes on Faith

“I shall never rise to the point of view which wishes to "raise" faith to knowledge. To me, the way of truth is to come through the knowledge of my ignorance to the submissiveness of faith, and then, making that my starting-place, to raise my knowledge into faith.”

“Better a little faith dearly won, better launched alone on the infinite bewilderment of Truth, than perish on the splendid plenty of the richest creeds. Such Doubt is no self-willed presumption. Nor, truly exercised, will it prove itself, as much doubt does, the synonym for sorrow.”

“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”

“Faith is spiritualized imagination.”

“In religion faith does not spring out of feeling, but feeling out of faith. The less we feel the more we should trust. We cannot feel right till we have believed.”

“Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. The whole work is His, not ours, from first to last.”

“Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.”

“I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.”

“Many Christians estimate difficulty in the light of their own resources, and thus they attempt very little and they always fail. All giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and presence to be with them.”

“In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which so many dislike, which requires faith in God, since it makes one feel weak and poorly, is really a Divinely appointed means of grace. Perhaps the greatest hindrance to our work is our own imagined strength; and in fasting we learn what poor, weak creatures we are-dependent on a meal of meat for the little strength which we are so apt to lean upon."”

“I believe the promises of God enough to venture an eternity on them.”

“Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.”

“The faith which has not a sanctifying influence on the character is no better than the faith of devils. It is a "dead faith, because it is alone."”

“Abide in Me says Jesus. Cling to Me. Stick fast to Me. Live the life of close and intimate communion with Me. Get nearer to Me. Roll every burden on Me. Cast your whole weight on Me. Never let go your hold on Me for a moment. Be, as it were, rooted and planted in Me. Do this and I will never fail you. I will ever abide in you.”

“Saving faith and real converting grace will always produce some conformity to the image of Jesus.”

“Faith is the willingness to risk anything on God.”

“Faith is the key that unlocks all of God's cupboards.”

“Faith is asking. Faith is believing. Faith is doubting. Faith is stepping out anyway.”

“Living by faith is believing that God knows what is best for me.”

“A firm faith is the best theology; a good life is the best philosophy; a clear conscience the best law; honesty, the best policy, and temperance the best physic.”