“Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.”
Faith means different things to different people — trust in God, trust in the process, trust in other human beings. These quotes explore belief in all its forms, from religious devotion to the secular kind of faith that gets you through Tuesday.
“To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.”
“Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.”
“My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.”
“There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.”
“Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.”
“The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.”
“Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.”
“Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them.”
“You just have to have a simple faith.”
“God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.”
“But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.”
“From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.”
“Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.”
“When you're thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire ocean that's faith when you start to drink and finish only a glass or two that's science.”
“God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.”
“Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.”