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Inspirational quotes about faith from believers

From saints to ordinary individuals, these quotes about faith from believers serve as a beacon of light. 

It serves to remind you of the profound connection between faith and your ability to overcome adversity, find inner peace, and live a life of purpose.

  1. “True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His Promises.”- Francis Chan
  2. “What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”- Hans urs von Balthasar
  3. “Joy is the infallible proof of the presence of God.” - Madeleine L’engle
  4. “Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.”- Elisabeth Elliot
  5. “For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.”- Saint Teresa of Ávila
  6. “Christ literally walked in our shoes.”- Tim Keller
  7. “I’m not perfect. I’m never going to be. And that’s the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you’re trying to get better every day. You’re trying to improve.”- Tim Tebow
  8. “God will meet you where you are in order to take you where He wants you to go.”- Tony Evans
  9. “Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.”- Saint Thomas Aquinas
  10. “The principal part of faith is patience.”—George MacDonald
  11. "To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead, you relax, and float." - Alan Watts
  12. "If you lose faith, you lose all." - Eleanor Roosevelt
  13. "Faith is unseen but felt, faith is strength when we feel we have none, faith is hope when all seems lost." - Catherine Pulsifer
  14. "The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness." - Henry David Thoreau
  15. "I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors." - Joel Osteen
  16. "Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them." - Mahalia Jackson
  17. "Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times." - Martin Luther
  18. "The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith." - Billy Graham
  19. "Hearing how God is moving in other places encourages and inspires our faith for what God wants to do in our own corner of the world." - Matt Brown
  20. "My faith didn't remove the pain, but it got me through the pain. Trusting God didn't diminish or vanquish the anguish, but it enabled me to endure it." - Robert Rogers
  21. “Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” - Saint Augustine
  22. “Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.” - Saint Augustine
  23. “Take away from love the fullness of self-surrender, the completeness of personal commitment, and what remains will be a total denial and negation of it.” - Saint Pope John Paul II
  24. “In a world gone astray from God there is no peace, but it also lacks charity, which is true and perfect love… Nothing is more beautiful than love. Indeed, faith and hope will end when we die, whereas love, that is, charity, will last for eternity.” - Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
  25. “You must ask God to give you power to fight against the sin of pride which is your greatest enemy – the root of all that is evil, and the failure of all that is good. For God resists the proud.” - Saint Vincent de Paul
  26. “How we live our lives increases or diminishes our faith. Prayer, obedience, honesty, purity of thought and deed, and unselfishness increase faith. Without these, faith diminishes.” - Elder Neil L. Andersen
  27. “Faith in the Savior taught me that no matter what happened in the past, my story could have a happy ending.” - President Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  28. "If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk, If you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward." – Martin Luther King Jr.
  29. "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God." – Corrie ten Boom
  30. "When fear knocks on your door, send faith to answer. Fear is a feeling that has only the power we give it. You can feel fear and still do anything you know you need to do, even if you 'do it afraid.’” – Joyce Meyer
  31. “Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.”- Max Lucado
  32. “Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.” - Lauren Kate, Torment
  33. “None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.” - Paulo Coelho
  34. “The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.” - J.M. Barrie
  35. “Surrender to what is, let go of what was, have faith in what will be.” - Sonia Ricotti
  36. “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
  37. “Fear looks; faith jumps.” - Smith Wigglesworth
  38. 24. “Faith is a choice to trust God even when the road ahead seems uncertain.”- Dave Willis
  39. “Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.”- Henry David Thoreau
  40. “Faith is a passionate intuition.” - William Wordsworth

Originally published at Crossmap. See the next page for quotes about service. 

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