As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
-- Emmanuel Teney

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
-- Mother Teresa

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
-- Andre Gide

Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
-- William W. Watt

Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
-- Kahlil Gibran

Faith is a passionate intuition.
-- William Wordsworth

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about "where" we shall land, but rather on the belief that we "shall" land.
-- Carter Heyward

Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.
-- David S. Muzzey

Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
-- Author Unknown

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring something regardless of the consequences.
-- Sherwood Eddy

Faith is reason grown courageous.
-- Sherwood Eddy

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
-- Helen Keller

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
-- Saint Augustine

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.
-- C.S. Lewis

Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
-- Robert Collyer

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
-- William James

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
-- Dan Millman

Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow.
-- Philip Gulley

Fear clogs; Faith liberates.
-- Elbert Hubbard

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
-- B.C. Forbes

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
-- George E Woodberry

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
-- William Hazlitt

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
-- Gail Devers

Living without faith is like driving in a fog.
-- Proverb

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.
-- Buddha

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
-- Erich Fromm

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
-- Helen Keller

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
-- Oscar Wilde

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.
-- Ellen G White

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
-- Ralph Marston

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
-- St. Thomas Aquinas

When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen: There will be something solid for you to stand upon, or, you will be taught how to fly.
-- by Patrick Overton

When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
-- Zig Ziglar

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.
-- St Francis of Assisi

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
-- Mary Manin Morrissey

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