The Meaning of Faith

WHAT IS FAITH? 

"complete trust or confidence in someone or something"

I often struggled with the term, 'faith'; not because I did not have trust and confidence or believe in a higher being but because I did not know how to interact with that higher being. I struggled with the idea that you can acquire strength from a belief you never could've had without it. One of the greatest assets in human nature is the idea that we are stronger than what we hold within ourselves. Here's a few quotes on what some people believed was faith and how they felt about it. Hope this clarifies the meaning of Faith for those who aren't quite so sure as I was. Enjoy

A FAITH that hasn’t been tested can’t be trusted.
- Adrian Rogers 
 
FAITH, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.
- A. W. Tozer

FAITH is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
- Blaise Pascal 

A FAITH to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.
- Bob Harrington

FAITH is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
- C. S. Lewis

Obedience is the fruit of FAITH.
- Christina Rossetti 

FAITH is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.
- Cullen Hightower

FAITH is the refusal to panic.
- David Martyn Lloyd-Jones 

FAITH makes all things possible… love makes all things easy.
- Dwight L. Moody

The key to FAITH is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.
- Elder Cloward 

If you desire FAITH, then you have FAITH enough.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

FAITH is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
- Elton Trueblood

Flatter not thyself in thy FAITH in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbour.
- Francis Quarles

There are no miracles for those that have no FAITH in them.
- French Proverb 

The beginning of anxiety is the end of FAITH, and the beginning of true FAITH is the end of anxiety.
- George E. Mueller

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. FAITH means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton 

FAITH is a higher faculty than reason.
- Henry Christopher Bailey 

The smallest seed of FAITH is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau 

FAITHless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
- J. R. R. Tolkien

FAITH is not believing God for the inevitable but for the impossible.
- SoulSupply

Patience in the present, FAITH in the future, and joy in the doing.
- George Perera

The greatest act of FAITH is when a man understands he is not God.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

FAITH has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.
- Saint Thomas Acquinas 

FAITH is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this FAITH is to see what we believe.
- St. Augustine 

Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes FAITH.
- Stephen S. Wise 

You can judge the quality of their FAITH from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
- Tertullian

The errors of FAITH are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.
- Thomas Russell 

Painting is a FAITH, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
- Vincent Van Gogh

It’s not dying for FAITH that’s so hard, it’s living up to it.
- William M. Thackeray 

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