Their faith alone will not profit them, because they have not done works of righteousness.
Faith Quotes
Faith here means both belief in God and belief in anything at all, and the page does not try to separate them. Abraham Joshua Heschel is the most-quoted author. After him come Martin Luther, Shakespeare, Jesus and Paul, along with a good number of sceptics.
The sceptics are often the more quotable. H. L. Mencken, in Prejudices, Third Series (1922): “Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.” Douglas Adams, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979), asks whether it is not enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe there are fairies at the bottom of it. Montaigne, in the Essais: “Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.”
Two popular lines are flagged as misattributed: the one about the mind conceiving and believing, credited to W. Clement Stone, and the one about the NHS lasting as long as people have the faith to fight for it, credited to Aneurin Bevan.
Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.
When you are walking by faith you'll see things from a different perspective."
“Faith is believing God is who He says He is, and that He will do what He said He would do.”
When things are tough, I remind myself of what big dreams, faith and optimism can produce.
Don't be afraid to read things that will shake you and will shake your faith.
I am a woman of faith, shamelessly, and you can’t buy that quality, you can’t train it into someone.
The notion of article of faith is closely linked to that of beatitude.
The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith; and Faith is an Act of Reason.
Mary shared the obscure condition of faith that is that of the other redeemed.