Inspirational Quotes on Faith

“I'll give you some symptoms of a sign that your faith is deteriorating--whenever you face all of your problems and you trust only your plans to get you out--it is a sign that your faith is deteriorating.”

“Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.”

“Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.”

“Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.”

“Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.”

“It is the office of faith to believe what we do not see, and it shall be the reward of faith to see what we do believe.”

“Our heavenly King is pleased with all our graces: hot zeal and cool patience pleaseth Him; cheerful thankfulness and weeping repentance pleaseth Him; but none of them are welcome to Him without faith, as nothing can please Him without Christ.”

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

“Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.”

“Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.”

“We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.”

“Faith is God's work within us.”

“Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.”

“Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.”

“Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith.”

“Faith is the champion of grace, and love the nurse; but humility is the beauty of grace.”

“Faith is the fountain of prayer, and prayer should be nothing else but faith exercised.”

“Faith holds the promise in one hand, and Christ in the other.”

“Faith is seated in the understanding, as well as the will. It has an eye to see Christ, as well as a wing to fly to Christ.”

“Faith is full of good works. It believes as if it did not work, and it works as if it did not believe.”