100 Inspirational Quotes on Faith to Uplift Your Spirit

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

- Matthew 21:2

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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

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

- Corrie ten Boom

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

- Hebrews 11:1

"For nothing will be impossible with God."

- Luke 1:37

"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

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

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."

- The Bible

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

- Saint Augustine

"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."

- C.S. Lewis

"Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"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

"Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death."

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Beth Moore

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

- Blaise Pascal

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Khalil Gibran

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- St. John Eudes

"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

"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

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

- Susan Taylor

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Mitch Albom

"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

"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars."

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Joni Eareckson Tada

"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

"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

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

- Micah 6:8

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

- Helen Keller

"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

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

- Mother Teresa

"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

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

- D. Elton Trueblood

"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

"And our faith changes us. I know it’s changed me. It renews in us a sense of possibility. It allows us to believe that although we are all sinners, and that at times we will falter, there’s always the possibility of redemption. Every once in a while, we might get something right, we might do some good."

- President Barack Obama

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."

- Soren Kierkegaard

"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

"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

"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

"When I gave you My Spirit, I empowered you to live beyond your natural ability and strength."

- Sarah Young

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

- Anne Frank

"Faith is a state of openness or trust."

- Alan Watts

"Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift."

- Dante Alighieri

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

- Victoria Arlen

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

- Voltaire

"Be Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Plato

"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."

- Helen Keller

"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

"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

"There lives more faith in honest doubt, / Believe me, than in half the creeds."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Faith is not contrary to reason."

- Sherwood Eddy

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you lose faith, you lose all."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

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

- Ben Carson

"Keep Going Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. Yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Khalil Gibran

"You’re designed to be heard by God. Don’t believe the lie that He’s not listening when you speak."

- Lorenzo Hines

"You are the only Bible some nonbelievers will ever read."

- John MacArthur

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Destiny is not for comfort seekers. Destiny is for the daring and determined who are willing to at times endure some discomfort, delayed gratification, and go where destiny leads."

- Bishop T.D. Jakes

"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

- Paulo Coelho

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."