Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
Samuel Butler

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
Samuel Butler

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
Bruce Barton

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
Louisa May Alcott

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.
Martin Van Buren

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Mary McLeod Bethune

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Mary McLeod Bethune

My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.
Marian Wright Edelman

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. White

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
Jonathan Edwards

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
Simone Weil

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
Simone Weil

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
Karl Barth

Faith is never identical with piety.
Karl Barth

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
Pope Benedict XVI

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
Pope Benedict XVI

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
Anton Chekhov