60 Inspirational Faith Quotes

In moments of doubt or during challenging times, the power of faith has an undeniable ability to uplift our spirits and offer hope. Whether you're seeking motivation, reassurance, or simply a moment of reflection, inspirational faith quotes can provide a comforting beacon of light. Faith serves as a reminder of the strength that lies within us and the belief in something greater. In this collection, we've gathered 60 of the most inspirational faith quotes to encourage and inspire you on your journey. Let these words of wisdom guide you in finding solace and strength in your own beliefs, no matter where you are in life.

1. “For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club.” - Martin Luther

2. “Religious people tend to encounter, among those who are not, a cemented certainty that belief in God is a crutch for the weak and the fearful...Now the belief in God may turn out at the last trump to be a mistake. Meantime, let us be quite clear, it is not merely the comfort of the simple--though it is that too, much to its glory--it is a formidable intellectual position with which most of the first-class minds of the human race, century in and century out, have concurred, each in his own way....speaking of crutches--Freud can be a crutch, Marx can be a crutch, rationalism can be a crutch, and atheism can be two canes and a pair of iron braces. We none of us have all the answers, nor are we likely to have. But in the country of the halt, the man who is surest he has no limp may be the worst-crippled.” - Herman Wouk

3. “Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

4. “As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

5. “Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see,But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency.” - Emily Dickinson

6. “The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful.” - Robert Ferrigno

7. “Redeemed humanity is still young, it has hardly come to its full strength. But already there is joy enough in the little finger of a great saint such as yonder lady to waken all the dead things of the universe into life.” - C. S. Lewis

8. “Any profession of faith…entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived.” - Luke Timothy Johnson

9. “Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some political outlook, never takes its sophistries seriously, but only its practical aims, which are concealed beneath these sophistries. Political rhetoric and sophistries do not exist, after all, in order that they be believed; rather, they have to serve as a common and agreed upon alibi. Foolish people who take them in earnest sooner or later discover inconsistencies in them, begin to protest, and finish finally and infamously as heretics and apostates. No, too much faith never brings anything good...” - Milan Kundera

10. “Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.” - Eknath Easwaran

11. “Is it folly to believe in something that is intangible? After all, some of the greatest intangibles are Love, Hope, and Wonder.Another is Deity.The choice to be a fool is yours.” - Vera Nazarian

12. “No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.” - Orson F. Whitney

13. “How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy.” - Terry Tempest Williams

14. “Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.” - John Ortberg

15. “Hit ain't sacrilege. Miss Effie Belle says when she cain't think what to have for dinner, she asts God and right off He gives her an idea. To my thinkin', thet's sacrilege."Miss Love really laughed. "There's not a woman in the world who hasn't prayed what to cook for dinner, Rucker!” - Olive Ann Burns

16. “Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime.” - Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Douglas Carlton Abrams

17. “Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith....Power is not to be crossed; one must respect and obey. Power means strength, whereas love is a human frailty the people mistrust. It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.” - Saul Alinsky

18. “Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.” - Tariq Ramadan

19. “Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!” - Robert G. Ingersoll

20. “[A] great deal of what we believe we do not know firsthand; instead we have faith in the knowledge of specialists.” - Terry Eagleton

21. “The people who pray together build together a better world” - Criss Tareyton

22. “Be true, unbeliever.” - Stephen R. Donaldson

23. “You don't need great faith to move mountains, you only need to use the poor faith you say you have.” - Neil Velez

24. “This is the one who will find us. He's the one who will lead them all back to me someday. He's the explorer. El curioso.” - Sandra Rodriguez Barron

25. “The most important lesson that we're supposed to be learning right now is how completely lost we are without God. If we don't learn this lesson, then our lives are going to have zero meaning. (Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality)” - Brian "Head" Welch

26. “To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience ... the quality of a Christian's experience depends on the quality of his faith, just as the quality of his faith depends in turn on the quality of his understanding of God's truth.” - Os Guinness

27. “I prefer a world with many beliefs and religions.It stimulates my faith to keep growing day by day.” - Toba Beta

28. “The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given, the weather conditions that prevail at the ...moment.” - Eugene Peterson

29. “Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.” - Frederica Mathewes-Green

30. “As prayer without faith is but a beating of the air, so trust without prayer [is] but a presumptuous bravado. He that promises to give, and bids us trust His promises, commands us to pray, and expects obedience to his commands. He will give, but not without our asking.” - Thomas Lye

31. “No Temple made by mortal human hands can ever compare to the Temple made by the gods themselves. That building of wood and stone that houses us and that many believe conceals the great Secret Temple from prying eyes, somewhere in its heart of hearts, is but a decoy for the masses who need this simple concrete limited thing in their lives. The real Temple is the whole world, and there is nothing as divinely blessed as a blooming growing garden.” - Vera Nazarian

32. “The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.” - George Eliot

33. “Religion doesn't just cloud our minds. It asks us to deliberately deceive ourselves-- to replace reason with its opposite, faith. And when men operate on faith, they can no longer be reasoned with, which makes them more dangerous than any sane man, good or evil.” - James L. Sutter

34. “Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.” - Shannon L. Alder

35. “Just as He had been doing even before the moment I consciously embarked on this journey, He revealed to me that it was all about love. It always has been—before the foundations of the earth—and it always will be—throughout eternity. The answers I was seeking were found in love, the healing I desperately needed also found in love. The love I sought and so desperately wanted to give was enabled, empowered, and actualized by His divine love. So nothing remains but for me to LOVE as an expression of my appreciation for His love for me: L-live an O-openly V-virtuous E-existence.” - Riisa Renee

36. “The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the theist believes a 'who' created the universe.” - Criss Jami

37. “Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory” - Joyce Meyer

38. “For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?But if a spiral, am I going up or down it?How often -- will it be for always? -- how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, "I never realized my loss till this moment"? The same leg is cut off time after time.” - C.S. Lewis

39. “Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.” - Aberjhani

40. “On the subject of who is to blame for our disunity - “The easy conclusion- thatthe devil is at work trying to destroy the church- is true, but itʼs not the whole story. Ofcourse the enemy is at work doing that. But closer examination shows that much ofthe blame falls squarely on the shoulders of the church itself-on believers in god-andhow our own devilish deeds have alienated other followers of God. Sadly, weʼve donethe devilʼs work for him.” - Ed Galisewski

41. “...we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the "do" part of faith.” - Bob Goff

42. “[God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own comprehension, and I will help you to comprehend even as I do. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. My comprehension transcends yours.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

43. “But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.” - Rachel Joyce

44. “ I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her what I never known how to give her. These pages will be our memory until she drows her last breath in my arms and I take her forever and escape at last to a place where neither heaven nor hell will ever be able to find us. ” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

45. “The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.” - Alexander Theroux

46. “Allah tests our patience and our fortitude. He tests out strength of faith. be patient and there will endless rewards for you, insha'Allah" - Utaz Badr” - Leila Aboulela

47. “To the knights of faith nobody believes.” - Dejan Stojanovic

48. “DeeDee had to have a firm grasp on reality. Yet she knew God was bigger than a pathology report. So she prayed.” - K. Howard Joslin

49. “...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist's version, the more clearly perhaps must we see the ideal that stands in opposition - otherwise life becomes impossible! Art symbolises the meaning of our existence.” - Andrei Tarkovsky

50. “As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance—an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love—then external lack is bound to be temporary.” - Marianne Williamson

51. “Time and again the sun sets like a bedimming curtain before my eyes, taking with it all illumination, warmth, and color.  I am overwhelmed by night and the monsters that lurk in shadows of despair.  But alas, stars twinkle from afar, shedding the tiniest rays of lighted hope.  I am reminded that the sun also rises and that morning's glory shall restore beauty to my world.  The realization of this dream is only a matter of waiting out the dreary night.  So, I shall persevere.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

52. “I learned that within the confines of God’s story, nothing had been stolen from me, but rather everything was given to me. My life, which felt so out of control, was in reality in complete control – God’s control.” - Wendy Blight

53. “Jesus tells us: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’ (Mk 12:31). How can we love our neighbor if we can’t or won’t love ourselves, at least a little? When we hold ourselves to unrealistic standards, that perfectionist attitude can’t help but trickle down. It becomes harder to have compassion for others if we have no compassion for ourselves.” - Mary DeTurris Poust

54. “Participants in the kingdom of the world trust the power of the sword to control behavior; participants of the kingdom of God trust the power of self-sacrificial love to transform hearts. The kingdom of the world is concerned with preserving law and order by force; the kingdom of God is concerned with establishing the rule of God through love. The kingdom of the world is centrally concerned with what people do; the kingdom of God is centrally concerned with how people are and what they can become.The kingdom of the world is characterized by judgment; the kingdom of God is characterized by outrageous, even scandalous, grace.” - Gregory A. Boyd

55. “Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people," to the exclusion of other human beings.” - Bryant McGill

56. “Yet even in such moments she didn’t doubt that God existed. She just sometimes wondered if He remembered that she did.” - Tamera Alexander

57. “Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.” - Elie Wiesel

58. “All I know is that the closer I get to God, the deeper I get into the Bible, and the heavier the burden seems on my shoulders.” - Tim LaHaye

59. “If He is with me I care not where I go.” - St. Francis de Sales

60. “He asks for your own heart. Give it such as it is ... Are we not aware that everything that is remitted into His divine hands is converted to good?” - St. Francis de Sales