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
