These true faith quotes will inspire you.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging true faith quotes, true faith sayings, and true faith proverbs.
Best True Faith Quotes
- “Real true faith is man’s weakness leaning on God’s strength.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “True faith is not a leap into the dark; it’s a leap into the light” ~ Eric Metaxas
- “What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
- “I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.” ~ Martin Luther
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“All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.” ~ Martin Luther
- “Faith is more than thinking something is true. Faith is thinking something is true to the extent that we act on it.” ~ W. T. Purkiser
- “Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “True faith begins with true repentance for whatever we have been doing that is wrong.” ~ Rick Joyner
- “True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His Promises.” ~ Francis Chan
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“All who call on God in true faith…will certainly be heard.” ~ Martin Luther
- “I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself.” ~ Elizabeth Ann Seton
- “Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.” ~ Billy Graham
- “True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is “found to praise and honour and glory.” ~ Jonathan Edwards
- “If we insist on visible proofs from God, we may well prepare the way for a permanent state of disappointment. True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will. As I searched through the Bible for models of great faith, I was struck by how few saints experienced anything like Job’s dramatic encounter with God. The rest responded to the hiddenness not by demanding that he show himself, but by going ahead and believing him though he stayed hidden.” ~ Philip Yancey
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“This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.” ~ Martin Luther
- “Only through repentance and faith in Christ can anyone be saved. No religious activity will be sufficient, only true faith in Jesus Christ alone.” ~ Ravi Zacharias
- “True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.” ~ Martin Luther
- “In all true faith there is complete committal to God.” ~ Lee Roberson
- “It’s a weak faith that only serves God in times of blessing. The book of Job teaches us that true faith, genuine faith, great faith is revealed only when we serve and trust God in the hard times, the times of suffering, loss, and opposition. That’s the kind of faith that makes the world sit up and take notice.” ~ Ray Stedman
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“True faith is ever connected with hope.” ~ John Calvin
- “The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.” ~ George Muller
- “True faith goes into operation when there are no answers.” ~ Elisabeth Elliot
- “True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.” ~ Frederick Buechner
- “It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in the Christ in whom faith trusts…It is not the measure of faith, but the sincerity of faith, which is the point to be considered.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
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“True faith, real and pure faith, cannot be practiced in moderation.” ~ Steve Arterburn
- “It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “We may sing, ‘Crown Him Lord of all,’ and rejoice in the tones of the loud-sounding organ and the deep melody of harmonious voices, but still we have done nothing until we have left the world and set our faces toward the city of God in hard practical reality. When faith becomes obedience then it is true faith indeed.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.” ~ J. C. Ryle
- “Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.” ~ Simone Weil
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“True faith is trusting the sovereign God even when we don’t understand.” ~ Hank Hanegraaff
- “A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.” ~ George Whitefield
- “Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “We’re not always going to understand why something happens.True faith is trusting even when it doesn’t make sense” ~ Joel Osteen
- “For the unified mind in accord with the Way all self-centered striving ceases. Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith is possible. With a single stroke we are freed from bondage; nothing clings to us and we hold nothing. All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of the mind’s power.” ~ Sengcan
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“Hope is wishing for something to come true. Faith is belief that it will come true. Believe that for every problem God gives you, He will also provide you with a solution.” ~ Mary Kay Ash
- “Neither the true faith nor eternal salvation is to be found outside the Holy Catholic Church.” ~ Pope Pius IX
- “True faith, by a mighty effort of the will, fixes its gaze on our Divine Helper, and there finds it possible and wise to lose its fears. It is madness to say, “I will not be afraid; “it is wisdom and peace to say, “I will trust and not be afraid.” ~ Alexander MacLaren
- “The blessed Paul argues that we are saved by faith, which he declares to be not from us but a gift from God. Thus there cannot possibly be true salvation where there is no true faith, and, since this faith is divinely enabled, it is without doubt bestowed by his free generosity. Where there is true belief through true faith, true salvation certainly accompanies it. Anyone who departs from true faith will not possess the grace of true salvation.” ~ Fulgentius of Ruspe
- “So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower, it noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas, he has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.” ~ Ramakrishna
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“True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler.” ~ William Butler Yeats
- “The less you feel and the more firmly you believe, the more praiseworthy is your faith and the more it will be esteemed and appreciated; for real faith is much more than a mere opinion of man. In it we have true knowledge: in truth, we lack nothing save true faith.” ~ Meister Eckhart
- “Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith ; and in this sense atheism is a purification. I have to be an atheist with that part of myself which is not made for God. Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers wrong.” ~ Simone Weil
- “True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form,
The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all
Which men need render; all which God can bear.
What to the faith are forms? A passing speck,
A crow upon the sky.” ~ Philip James Bailey -
“God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.” ~ J. G. Holland
- “God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil, the world, and our own flesh delude and draw us away from the true faith, and throw us into superstition, distrust, despair, and other grievous sins and wickedness; and that, if we should be tempted therewith even to the highest degree, we still may conquer, and at last triumph over them.” ~ Martin Luther
- “My favorite story about O’Connor – one of them – is I was in Toronto at a pro-life conference.I had a session before he was to come on,I thought very moderately – that not have unwanted abortions was to have much more research on contraception. Two true-faith people came out of the audience, wrested the microphone out of my hand and said, `That is im – inappropriate, improper. Pro-lifers do not believe in contraception.’ [John] O’Connor’s watching this said,`I want to tell you I’m delighted that Nat is not a member of the Catholic Church. We have enough trouble as it is.'” ~ Nat Hentoff
- “The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.” ~ Kabir
- “God in His answers to prayer often says “Yes.” Sometimes He says “Wait.” Often He says “No.” In any case, His will is done, and true faith is to believe that what happened has happened for the best. If one does not take that attitude, he is setting his personal desire against the wisdom of God. Oftentimes we confuse with faith merely that which we desire.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
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“The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith.” ~ Martin Luther
- “The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.” ~ Alphonsus Liguori
- “The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God’s identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it’s the truth.” ~ Anne Lamott , True faith quotes love
- “All Americans must recognize that the face of terror is not the true faith – face of Islam. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. It’s a faith that has made brothers and sisters of every race. It’s a faith based upon love, not hate.” ~ George W. Bush
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“Let God be true but every man a liar” is the language of true faith” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking to advance the frontiers of his discipline, the missionary seeking to convert infidels to the true faith, the philanthropist seeking to bring comfort to the needy – all are pursuing their interests, as they see them, as they judge them by their own values.” ~ Milton Friedman
- “When you enlisted into the armed forces you swore to support and defend a Constitution that did not yet fully apply to you. You chose to endure the same sacrifices as your fellow comrades in arms to preserve the freedom of a land that was not yet fully yours. You accepted that you might have to pay the ultimate price on behalf of a nation to which you did not fully belong. Now, you will officially become citizens of the United States, a country to which each of you has already borne true faith and allegiance in your hearts and your deeds.” ~ David Petraeus
- “It’s wonderful how, the moment you talk about God and love, your voice becomes hard, and your eyes fill with hatred. No, Margret, you certainly haven’t the true faith.” ~ August Strindberg
- “The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
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“Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity.” ~ Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- “In the end–when all else is dust–loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith–true faith–was trusting in that love.” ~ Dan Simmons
- “… true faith never comes without anguish.” ~ R.L. LaFevers
- “True faith manifests itself through our actions.” ~ Francis Chan
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“True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.” ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
- “You say that you people don’t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that’s what true faith would mean, y’see? Sacrificin’ your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin’ the truth of it, workin’ for it, breathin’ the soul of it. That’s religion. Anything else is just . . . is just bein’ nice. And a way of keepin’ in touch with the neighbors.” ~ Terry Pratchett
- “True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity” ~ Francis Chan
