100+ Inspirational Quotes About Faith in God to Uplift Your Spirit

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."

- John 3:16

"Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me."

- Sean Combs

"I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith."

- Rose Kennedy

"God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you."

- Joel Osteen

"We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever."

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

"God has not called me to be successful; God has called me to be faithful."

- Mother Teresa

"When you have faith in God, you don't have to worry about the future. You just know it's all in His hands. You just go to and do your best."

- Elder Bryan Mathison

"Faith is unseen but felt, faith is strength when we feel we have none, faith is hope when all seems lost."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams."

- Ben Carson

"No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!"

- Joyce Meyer

"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

"And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith."

- Matthew 21:2

"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

"Every day you need to get a full dose of the Word and meditate on scripture, and if you discipline yourself and remain consistent, your faith will grow and mature, and remember that God, the Word, and your faith, is a recipe for success."

- Stephanie Williams

"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

"We can look at Job, we can look at Lamentations, we can look at the Psalms, we can look at so many heroes of the faith who at different times had questions, who faced unbelief, yet God kept them, and they continued, in their doubts, to lean towards God, to lean and doubt in a way that continued to keep them attached to the vine and seeking Jesus in all of it."

- Laura Wifler

"Every single thing He has ever or will ever say is true. The simplicity of faith is this: taking God’s Word for it."

- Jackie Hill Perry

"We can let go of burdens like condemnation and worry, perfectionism and insecurity. And we can cling desperately—even through tears—to the assurance that God knows, he cares, and he loves us with an infinite love. We can lay our burdens at the feet of Christ and receive what he offers instead."

- Sarah J. Hauser

"The answer to our fears is faith—real, fear-shrinking faith—in the God who loves us and gave himself for us."

- Jani Ortlund

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Where two or three come together in my name, I am there with them."

- Matthew 18:20

"Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action."

- Richard J. Foster

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

- St. Augustine

"Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."

- Teresa of Avila

"We hope to pursue that which gives life deep meaning. Those things worth living for, maybe even worth dying for, that energizes us, and enable us to keep moving ahead in the service of faith and the promotion of justice."

- Ita Ford MM

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

- Mother Teresa

"When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance."

- Joel Osteen

"Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time."

- Oswald Chambers

"As you practice counting your blessings, you will find that your faith is being suddenly revitalized."

- Robert Schuller

"Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible."

- Mary McLeod Bethune

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

- Thomas Aquinas

"In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away."

- Iyanla Vanzant

"We are never defeated unless we give up on God."

- Ronald Reagan

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe."

- T. D. Jakes

"Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies."

- George Whitefield

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first."

- Thomas More

"If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery."

- John Paul Jones

"A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing."

- Victor Hugo

"Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character."

- Robert Browning

"A man of courage is also full of faith."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith."

- Paul Tillich

"God enters by a private door into every individual."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer."

- John Wooden

"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them."

- Mahalia Jackson

"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

"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

"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."

- Helen Keller

"Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life."

- Gregory Peck

"True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie."

- A.W. Tozer

"In faith, there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t."

- Blaise Pascal

"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."

- Voltaire

"Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes."

- Beth Moore

"Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods."

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Saint Augustine

"I don't think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith."

- Nicholas Sparks

"Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith."

- A.W. Tozer

"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

- G.K. Chesterton

"Faith is not contrary to reason."

- Sherwood Eddy

"Sometimes the worst conditions can often provide the best atmosphere to act in faith. God doesn't want our confidence regulated by our audience. If faith-discouragers can shake our confidence badly enough to disable us, our confidence may be in ourselves instead of God."

- Beth Moore

"It is a blessing for our children to see us live out our faith—trusting in God’s good character and provision—even when we don’t have all the answers."

- Marissa Bondurant

"Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen."

- Hebrews 11:1

"Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday."

- Psalm 37:5-6

"For nothing will be impossible with God."

- Luke 1:37

"Then Jesus said, 'Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?'”"

- John 11:40

"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast."

- Ephesians 2:8-9

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

- John 3:16

"Just as love is a verb, so is faith."

- Nannie Helen Burroughs

"I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you're a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation."

- Joel Osteen

"Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe."

- Mitch Albom

"Faith is a state of openness or trust."

- Alan Watts

"In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see."

- Corrie ten Boom

"Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you."

- Matthew 5:4

"Everything is possible for the one who believes."

- Mark 9:23

"Be on your guard, stand firm in the faith, be courageous, be strong."

- 1 Corinthians 16:13

"It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters."

- Mother Teresa

"Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit."

- Matthew 28:17

"It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable."

- Maya Angelou

"What is to give light must endure the burning."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"In God's eyes our words have only the value of our actions."

- St. Ignatius Loyola

"Faithfulness in little things is a big thing."

- St. John Chrysostom

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"What does the Lord require? Only to act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God."

- Micah 6:8

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the heaven."

- Ecclesiastes 3:1

"The glory of life comes not from the things we can command but from the things that we can reverence."

- Goethe

"Faith is a beam radiating from the face of God."

- St. John Eudes

"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."

- Corrie ten Boom

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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

"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

"That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."

- Romans 10:9

"You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense."

- Rick Warren

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

- C. S. Lewis

"The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus."

- John Piper

"Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved."

- Romans 10:10

"‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for him who believes.”"

- Mark 9:23

"Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you."

- Deuteronomy 31:6

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths."

- Proverbs 3:5-6

"So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal."

- 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

"but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint."

- Isaiah 40:31

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope."

- Jeremiah 29:11

"Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

- Isaiah 41:10

"So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

- Isaiah 41:10

"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."

- 2 Corinthians 4:16-18

"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

- Jeremiah 29:11

"For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

- Romans 8:38-39

"“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”"

- John 16:33

"Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.”"

- Mark 10:27

"He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”"

- Matthew 17:20

"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”"

- Joshua 1:9

"What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?"

- Romans 8:31

"Faith is “being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.”"

- John Piper

"“This is the distinguishing property … of saving faith: it beholds the glory of God in the face of Christ.”"

- John Owen

"“Faith is that by which the soul comes to Christ, and receives him.”"

- Jonathan Edwards

"“The terms of reconciliation are … to believe in Jesus Christ with faith that purifies the heart, and enables thy soul to feed on him effectually, and be saved from this sad state.”"

- John Bunyan

"“For [Charles Simeon] Christ was the Gospel; and personal faith in Him, a living Person, was the Gospel secret.”"

- H. C. G. Moule

"“The promise is but the cabinet, Christ is the jewel in it which faith embraces; the promise is but the dish, Christ is the food in it which faith feeds on.”"

- Thomas Watson

"“If we would have our hearts satisfied with the love and delight the Father and the Son have for each other, we should be careful to let the Spirit … keep us filled with all joy and peace as we trust God’s promises.”"

- Daniel Fuller

"“God-glorifying faith is a future-oriented confidence in God’s integrity and power and wisdom to follow through on all His promises.”"

- John Piper

"“Faith believes the promise; but that which faith rests upon in the promise is the person of Christ.”"

- Thomas Watson

"Faith is “that dependence of trust in God in the present, because of his acts in the past, that leads inevitably to banking our hope on his promises for the future.”"

- Scott Hafemann

"“It is impossible to sin with lively thoughts and hopes of the glory of heaven. It’s when the thoughts of heaven are long out of the Christian’s sight that he begins to set up some idol. But let heaven come in sight, and the Christian’s heart will be well warmed with thoughts of it. It is easier to persuade a king to throw his crown into a gutter, than to persuade a heaven-focused saint to sin.”"

- William Gurnall

"“Do any of us find decays of grace prevailing in us; deadness, coldness, lukewarmness, a kind of spiritual stupidity and senselessness coming upon us? There is no better way for our healing and deliverance, but this alone, namely, the obtaining a fresh view of the glory of Christ by faith, and a steady abiding therein. Constant contemplation of Christ and his glory putting forth its transforming power unto revival of all grace, is the only relief in this case.”"

- John Owen

"The fight of faith “is at its root a fight for delight. It’s a fight to maintain satisfaction in God against all the enticements of the world and all the deceptions of the devil … Diminishing delight is a summons for war.”"

- John Piper

"“Faith is more than recognition that something is true. In the Bible, faith characteristically involves trust in God and his Word, trust in God’s Son.”"

- D. A. Carson

"The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news!"

- John the Baptist in Mark 1:15

"If we are faithless, he will remain faithful, for he cannot disown himself."

- 2 Timothy 2:13

"Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think."

- Billy Graham

"Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven."

- Matt. 10:32

"God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of the fact."

- Acts 2:32

"“… man believed Satan above God — that is, placed his faith and confidence in him, as unto the way of attaining blessedness and true happiness.”"

- John Owen

"Few souls understand what God would accomplish in them if they were to abandon themselves unreservedly to Him and if they were to allow His grace to mold them accordingly."

- St. Ignatius Loyola

"Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, ‘I believe. Help my unbelief!'"

- Mark 9:24

"“The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies and put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.”"

- Matthew Henry

"Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope."

- Corazon Aquino

"Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence."

- Pope John Paul II

"How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?"

- Numbers 14:11

"As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises."

- David Wilkerson

"Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments."

- Psalms 119:66

"Understand that the enemy always fights the hardest when he knows you are closest to your breakthrough. He’d leave you alone if he thought you were going to live in mediocrity. If you keep pressing on toward your promise, through faith and patience, you will get there."

- Joel Osteen

"For the word of the Lord is right and true; he is faithful in all he does. The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love."

- Psalm 33:4-5

"For I am the LORD your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you."

- Isaiah 41:13

"“A weak faith can receive a strong Christ.”"

- Thomas Watson

"The name of the LORD is a fortified tower; the righteous run to it and are safe."

- Proverbs 18:10

"You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you."

- Isaiah 26:3

"So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ."

- Galatians 3:26-27

"I can do all this through him who gives me strength."

- Philippians 4:13

"When I am afraid, I put my trust in you."

- Psalms 56:3

"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."

- Romans 15:13

"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."

- Romans 8:28

"“This power [to conquer sin] is accessible in our experience through faith, not through simple striving of the will.”"

- Richard Lovelace

"“Faith has influence upon all the graces, and sets them to work; not a grace stirs till faith sets it to work.”"

- Thomas Watson

"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

"God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress."

- Kelly Clarkson

"Faith is a passionate intuition."

- William Wordsworth

"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other."

- Nova Bair

"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

"To me faith means not worrying."

- John Dewey

"Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith."

- Paul Brunton

"God always takes the simplest way."

- Albert Einstein

"We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last."

- Charles Studd

"The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness."

- Lamentations 3:22-23

"Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!"

- Psalm 34:8

"“It has often been observed that what people hope in for a happy future, that they worship; and what they worship, that they inevitably serve.”"

- Daniel Fuller

"Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD himself, is my strength and my defense ; he has become my salvation.”"

- Isaiah 12:2

"“And in whom we place our trust and confidence, them do we obey, whatever we profess.”"

- John Owen

"“God’s commands are all promises of God’s enablings.”"

- Charles Spurgeon

"When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze."

- Isaiah 43:2

"“Let us above all things labour for faith.”"

- Thomas Watson

"“You will always desire, love, trust, believe, fear, obey, long for, value, pursue, hope, and serve something.”"

- David Powlison

"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them."

- Mahalia Jackson

"Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night."

- George Herbert

"God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."

- Blaise Pascal

"If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear."

- Ayrton Senna

"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."

- Kahlil Gibran

"I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed."

- Vincent van Gogh

"“That which a man trusts to he makes his god.”"

- Thomas Watson

"Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves."

- Joni Eareckson Tada

"“Man is a creature of faith … he does not and cannot live in a faith vacuum. The decisive question is not whether faith is a necessary condition of human life but rather in whom or in what that faith reposes.”"

- Carl Henry

"I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life."

- John 5:24

"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Faith is like a seed; plant it in your heart. God gives the harvest at the appointed time."

- Mark 4:26-27,28-29

"“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."

- Matthew 11:28

"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito."

- C.S. Lewis

"Resist discouragement by speaking His Word over your future. Keep standing. Keep hoping; keep believing because He is working behind the scenes. He’s going to accelerate your times and lead you into the life of victory He has for you."

- Joel Osteen

"I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness."

- Mother Teresa

"Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it’s true."

- Max Lucado

"If you wish to know God, you must know his Word. If you wish to perceive His power, you must see how He works by his Word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it by His Word."

- C.H. Spurgeon

"Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done."

- C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

"The principle part of faith is patience."

- George MacDonald

"Faith is not something you have to get. It’s something that you, as a born-again child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That’s when your healing starts!"

- Oral Roberts

"If you lose faith, you lose all."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

"Faith that it's not always in your hands or things don't always go the way you planned, but you have to have faith that there is a plan for you, and you must follow your heart and believe in yourself no matter what."

- Martina McBride

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."

- Plato

"I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason."

- Elie Wiesel

"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation."

- D. Elton Trueblood

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth."

- Susan Taylor

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls."

- Mother Teresa

"A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity."

- Proverbs 17:17

"Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor."

- Proverbs 21:21

"These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up."

- Deuteronomy 6:6-7

"But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right."

- Billy Graham

"For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God."

- John Calvin

"Always believe in yourself and keep going. You don't have to have the most talent in the world. You don't have to be the smartest person in the world. If you persist and you persist and you persist, you will be successful."

- Dean Cain

"Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it."

- Diane Sawyer

"Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith."

- Garth Brooks

"If you have a good support system like your family and your friends around you, then you can't go wrong. So just believe in yourself, do you your thing, and stay strong in what you believe in."

- Roman Reigns

"Believe in yourself when nobody else does."

- Mary J. Blige

"If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that."

- Karlie Kloss

"Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish."

- Brad Henry

"It's important to believe in yourself and the beauty of your dreams and to not let anyone tell you different."

- Victoria Arlen

"You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground."

- A. J. McLean

"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

"Faith in oneself is the best and safest course."

- Michelangelo

"Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them."

- Steve Jobs

"I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control."

- Javier Bardem

"Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct."

- Paula Abdul

"A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests."

- Niccolo Machiavelli

"A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being."

"But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind."

"And Jesus said to him, 'Go your way; your faith has made you well.' And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him on the way."

"But someone will say, 'You have faith and I have works.' Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works."

"In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven."

"For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith."

"Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls."

"Because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance."

"And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise."

"And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him."

"Because God is with you all the time, no place is any closer to God than the place where you are right now."

"Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. Do everything in love."

"Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you."