150 Faith Quotes that Will Inspire and Encourage You

Life is beautiful and filled with happy moments, but it can also be challenging. Sometimes we’re forced to go through unbearable situations. In those difficult times, faith can be our salvation.

Faith is a fundamental part of our lives. From a very young age we’re taught that leaning on faith when facing problems can help us overcome anything. Having faith and a positive outlook on life can also help us motivate and encourage people around us whenever they feel hopeless, broken or desperate.

It doesn’t really matter what you believe in as long as it doesn’t lead to destructive behavior. You can believe in divinity, the Universe, yourself or all of these combined.

When you experience loss and emptiness – whether you’re mourning the death of a loved one, cry over a gut-wrenching heartbreak or feel completely alone – a little faith can do miracles for you. It will give you strength and hope that better days are yet to come.

Here are 150 faith quotes that will inspire and encourage you:

You have to believe in something, whether you can see it or not. We all have faith in something, otherwise life would cease to have meaning. Faith is a bridge between you and hope – hope to overcome challenges and illness. Here’s our list of faith quotes that explain its power:

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right. 

MAX LUCADO

Faiths… all faiths… are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable.

DAN BROWN

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. 

NELSON MANDELA

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe. 

MITCH ALBOM

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

SAINT AUGUSTINE

Faith is unseen but felt, faith is strength when we feel we have none, faith is hope when all seems lost.

CATHERINE PULSIFER

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

THOMAS AQUINAS

That is the definition of faith – acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

DAN BROWN

Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

HEBREWS 11:1

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

C.S. LEWIS

Faith means you have it in your heart before you have it in your circumstances.

KIMBERLY JONES-POTHIER

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

MAHALIA JACKSON

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

MAHALIA JACKSON

Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell.

RAM DASS

Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is the most centered act of the human mind. It is not a movement of a special section or a special function of (our) total being. They all are united in the act of faith.

PAUL TILLICH

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

CORRIE TEN BOOM

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.

OPRAH WINFREY (more Oprah Winfrey quotes)

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

ERICH FROMM

To me, finding my faith, right now where I’m at, is putting all of my trust in something bigger than myself and living for something bigger than myself and trying to do that through service.

NOOR TAGOURI

Have faith quotes

When you have faith, you can see the light at the end of the tunnel. You’ll be able to find solutions for whatever you’re going through because deep down you know that nothing is permanent and everything shall pass. Here’s our collection of have faith quotes to keep your beliefs alive:

Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can’t always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith. 

LAUREN KATE

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. 

MAHATMA GANDHI (more Mahatma Gandhi quotes)

Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. 

RAINER MARIA RILKE

Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you’ve changed, by believing. Once you’ve changed, other things start to follow. Isn’t that the way it works?

DIANE DUANE

Patience is not the ability to wait. Patience is to be calm no matter what happens, constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities, and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting. 

ROY T. BENNETT

I dont think that we’re meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith. 

NICHOLAS SPARKS

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. 

ALAN WILSON WATTS

Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith. 

GREG BEHRENDT

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.

MATTHEW 21:22

Let your life reflect the faith you have in God. Fear nothing and pray about everything. Be strong, trust God’s word, and trust the process. 

GERMANY KENT

Have faith that the morning you dream of will eventually come. 

RICHELLE E. GOODRICH

Sometimes soul bonds are stronger than blood bonds. Have faith in that. 

DIANNA HARDY

Inspirational faith quotes

Sometimes an inspirational quote can be a reminder of why we should keep our faith alive. To encourage you to strongly believe in a positive outcome and to keep on fighting for your dreams, here are some inspirational faith quotes and sayings.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 

UNKNOWN

Keep going. Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end. 

ROY T. BENNETT

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. 

SOREN KIERKEGAARD

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

 RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. 

J.M. BARRIE

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls. 

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

Faith is the subject of the head. Devotion is the subject of the heart and meditation connect both.

SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

Everyone knows that the soft overcomes the hard and the yielding triumphs over the rigid. Why then so little faith? Why can no one practice it?

LAO TZU (more Lao Tzu quotes)

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

BEN CARSON

My faith didn’t remove the pain, but it got me through the pain. Trusting God didn’t diminish or vanquish the anguish, but it enabled me to endure it.

ROBERT ROGERS

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

GREGORY PECK

A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting.

GLADYS TABER

Just mind your own business and be the light. Trust that everyone is on their own spiritual path and timeline. Your loved ones may not ever share your beliefs, but that doesn’t matter. Stay committed to your faith and the Universe will take care of the rest.

GABBY BERNSTEIN

Faith is not desire. Faith is will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied. Will is a force that changes everything around us.

PAULO COELHO

Believing involves thinking, talking and acting as though you have already received what you’ve asked for.

RHONDA BYRNE

We lack faith in what exists within us because we lack faith in Who exists within us.

MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Leap of faith quotes

Not everyone is brave enough to take risks and dive into the unknown at any moment. However, there comes a time when we you’ll have to take a leap of faith to be happier, to fall in love again or to finally get your dream job. Check out the following leap of faith quotes to help you live the life you want.

Sometimes it’s better to take a leap of faith and just believe what you hear instead of trying to find the story behind it.

ASH SWEENEY

Every great move forward in your life begins with a leap of faith, a step into the unknown.

BRIAN TRACY

But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you’re going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you. 

C. JOYBELL C.

Be brave and take risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward. 

ROY T. BENNETT

You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet… 

LIBBA BRAY

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope. 

THOMAS MERTON

Not a single bird makes its first leap from a tree without faith, and not a single animal in the jungle begins its day without faith.

SUZY KASSEM

To live, to truly live, we must be willing to risk. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look.

MANDY HALE

It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.

WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN

There are many talented people who haven’t fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

JAMES CAMERON

Take a leap of faith and see that these troubled waters have no power over you unless you give it to them, and even then they lie.

TED DEKKER

Leave behind your old self and take a leap of faith into the unknown, you will surely find out what you are truly capable of becoming. Always have faith folks.

KEMMY NOLA

Take a leap of faith. You will either land somewhere new or learn to fly.

KANDYSE MCCLURE

Ultimately it’s a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

DEREK JACOBI

I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.

SARAH DESSEN

But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration because it’s a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks.

JAMES CAMERON

Gravity is love and every turn is a leap of faith.

WARREN MILLER

Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing.

SARAH BAN BREATHNACH

There is a leap of faith with any conclusion the mind can conceive.

H. MORTARA

It only takes one idea, one second in time, one friend, one dream, one leap of faith, to change everything forever.

MIKE DOOLEY

Faith over fear quotes

They say that faith and fear cannot coexist together because when you have faith, fear disappears. Isn’t it an amazing feeling to know that having faith is all you need to chase your fears away and live life to the fullest? Here’s our collection of empowering faith over fear quotes. Enjoy!

The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident.

MAX LUCADO

Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose.

BOB PROCTOR

Fear is a self imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love.

RICK WARREN

Fear cannot exist in the presence of faith. Fear only exists because you feel that you are not in control. Give up the need to be in control, take a leap in faith and fear will vanish as the mists in the morning sun.

JOHN HARRICHARAN

Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.

BEAR GRYLLS

Fear imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals.

HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK

There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever.

NORMAN VINCENT PEALE (more Norman Vincent Peale quotes)

Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.

JOEL OSTEEN

Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.

NAPOLEON HILL

Fear is faith that it won’t work.

MARY KAY ASH

Faith is the flame that eliminates fear, and faith is the emperor of dreams.

SUZY KASSEM

You can’t walk in faith and fear at the same time.

KENNETH COPELAND

I’ve always had to bind up and wrestle fear, because acting is really about faith. And faith and fear can’t really stay in the same room. So, in order for you to be more than a conqueror, you’re going to have to defeat fear with faith.

DEREK LUKE

Fear and faith cannot coexist in our hearts at the same time.

NEIL L. ANDERSEN

Short faith quotes

Sometimes a few words are enough to express the way you feel. And because we know you need a good quote to go with your social media posts, here are the best short faith quotes that we could find. We hope you’ll like them just as much as we do. Enjoy!

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

DARTH VADER

Faith means believing the unbelievable.

G.K. CHESTERTON

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Doubt everything. Find your own light. 

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Some things have to be believed to be seen. 

MADELEINE L’ENGLE

Faith is a passionate intuition.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

D. ELTON TRUEBLOOD

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE

Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.

SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

Those who have weak faith themselves cannot arouse faith in others.

LAO TZU

You have as much laughter as you have faith.

 MARTIN LUTHER

If you lose faith, you lose all.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Your beliefs are your bondage.

THIBAUT

Belief clings, but faith lets go.

ALAN WATTS

The principle part of faith is patience.

GEORGE MACDONALD

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

GARTH BROOKS

The more you surrender, the more faithful you’ll feel.

GABBY BERNSTEIN

Faith quotes from literature

Over the years, many famous authors have mentioned faith in their masterpieces — sometimes as a way to empower their characters and other times they simply put on paper their personal reflections and beliefs. Below you’ll find some of the best faith quotes from literature that will make you stop and think.

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. 

J.M. BARRIE

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. 

J.R.R. TOLKIEN

Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I’d do. I’d go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I’d look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I’d just feel a prayer. 

L.M. MONTGOMERY

With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists of a brotherhood of imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world spinning out of control. 

DAN BROWN

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

PAULO COELHO (more Paulo Coelho quotes)

In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure. 

J.R.R. TOLKIEN

Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom. 

JODI PICOULT

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith. 

PAULO COELHO

No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith. 

R.A. SALVATORE

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot. 

VOLTAIRE (more Voltaire quotes)

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends. 

HARPER LEE

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically. 

KEN FOLLETT

Never lose faith in yourself, and never lose hope; remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope. 

PITTACUS LORE

Faith can be very, very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong. 

RICHARD DAWKINS

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up. 

RALPH WALDO EMERSON (more Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes)

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith. 

IMMANUEL KANT

When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh. 

DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else’s path is wrong. 

PAULO COELHO

Faith and courage quotes

Faith and courage usually go hand in hand. You have the courage to do something because deep down you know you’ll succeed, and faith is what creates that feeling of certainty. Occasionally, you won’t be that sure about the outcome, but you’ll do it anyway hoping for the best.

Here’s our list of favorite faith and courage quotes:

A man of courage is also full of faith.

MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

DALE CARNEGIE (more Dale Carnegie quotes)

People who pray for miracles usually don’t get miracles. But people who pray for courage, for strength to bear the unbearable, for the grace to remember what they have left instead of what they have lost, very often find their prayers answered. Their prayers help them tap hidden reserves of faith and courage that were not available to them before.

HAROLD S. KUSHNER

It takes visions and courage to create. It takes faith and courage to prove.

OWEN D. YOUNG

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

B. C. FORBES

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

LOUISE ERDRICH

Living with faith and courage is something that life requires of each of us. Never, absolutely never, give up! Never give in no matter what! Fight it through! And I promise you something with all of my heart – God will help you.

KATHRYN KUHLMAN

Pause and remember – At any moment you have the power to say ‘this is enough’ and radically change the course of your destiny. Have the faith and courage to follow your hearts calling.

JENNIFER YOUNG

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Lessons that are most difficult to give are Faith and Courage and the way to live.

EDGAR GUEST

The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage.

SMILEY BLANTON

I just love seeing people embrace freedom, faith, and courage in the face of enormous odds.

EDWINA FINDLEY

Rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.

CORNELIA PARKER

But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world’s great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen to us, requires faith and courage.

ERICH FROMM

The faithful man perceives nothing less than opportunity in difficulties. Flowing through his spine, faith and courage work together: Such a man does not fear losing his life, thus he will risk losing it at times in order to empower it.

CRISS JAMI

The seeds of courage sprouts in the soil of perseverance and become faith.

MAXIME LAGACÉ

Famous quotes about faith

Maybe you know a friend who is in need of a little positivity or maybe you’re searching for strength yourself. We hope the following quotes will provide some much-needed positivity.

Here’s our list of famous quotes about faith to strengthen you during hard times.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. 

C.S. LEWIS

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now? 

JOHN LENNON

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. 

CORRIE TEN BOOM

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

PLATO

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

KAHLIL GILBRAN

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

BLAISE PASCAL

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

HELEN KELLER

Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.

BRENÉ BROWN

The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God’s guidance.

NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

MOTHER TERESA

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.

ALBERT EINSTEIN