35 Best Faith Quotes – Sayings About Keeping Faith

In her book The Path Made Clear, our Lady O of O reveals how she discovered her purpose. She added, “I believe every one of us is born with a purpose. No matter who you are, what you do, or how far you think you have to go, you have been tapped by a force greater than yourself to step into your God-given calling.”

During a sermon by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in November 1967, the Civil Rights leader and reverend said, “You ought to discover some principle, you ought to have some great faith that grips you so much that you will never give it up. Somehow you go on and say, ‘I know that the God that I worship is able to deliver me, but if not, I’m going on anyhow, I’m going to stand up for it anyway.’”

Corrie ten Boom, a woman who harbored hundreds of Jewish people in her home during World War II, said in her book Jesus Is Victor, “Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.”

“Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death,” Former South African President and revolutionary Nelson Mandela said in his autobiography.

During his final remarks at the Easter Prayer Breakfast at the White House in 2016, President Barack Obama said, “And our faith changes us. I know it’s changed me. It renews in us a sense of possibility. It allows us to believe that although we are all sinners, and that at times we will falter, there’s always the possibility of redemption. Every once in a while, we might get something right, we might do some good.”

In her daily devotional, Christian author Sarah Young said that God is saying to you, “When I gave you My Spirit, I empowered you to live beyond your natural ability and strength.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson said in one of his essays, The Over-Soul, “Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. Yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.”

Khalil Gibran a Lebanese American painter, writer, and poet said in his book The New Frontier and Sand and Foam, “Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.”

In his Instagram blog @ajourneywithgod, creator and photographer Lorenzo Hines said in one of his posts, “You’re designed to be heard by God. Don’t believe the lie that He’s not listening when you speak.”

“There lives more faith in honest doubt, / Believe me, than in half the creeds,” British poet Lord Alfred Tennyson said in the long poem “In Memoriam A.H.H.,” in which his hope in God is restored after being challenged by doubt.

“Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours,” it is written in The Bible in the book of Mark, in chapter 11 verses 22 through 24.

Author and filmmaker, Bishop TD Jakes of Potter’s House Church in Dallas, Texas, wrote in a Facebook status “Destiny is not for comfort seekers. Destiny is for the daring and determined who are willing to at times endure some discomfort, delayed gratification, and go where destiny leads.”

Paulo Coelho, a Brazilian lyricist and novelist said in The Alchemist, first published in 1988, “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

American pastor and author John MacArthur of the international syndicated Christian broadcast, Grace to You, said as a reminder to live as a good example for others, “You are the only Bible some nonbelievers will ever read,”in his daily reading book Drawing Near: Daily Readings for a Deeper Faith.