190 Faith Quotes and Inspirational Sayings on Being Blessed

Our latest collection of inspirational faith quotes will inspire you to begin or reflect on your spiritual journey.

Regardless of whether you identify as religious or focus on other spiritual practices, faith plays a large role in our lives.

Faith can be defined as “being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”

It is the understanding, deep down within, that things will turn out all right for us no matter what the situation might be.

Whether you acknowledge it or not, faith is an important part of life.

If we didn’t have faith, life would cease to have meaning.

This includes faith in ourselves.

We would not be able to move from one moment to the next without doubting every last thing that we did.

Life can get tough at times.

When things get remarkably difficult, it’s faith that keeps us going.

It gives us strength in times of weakness and illuminates the pathway in times of darkness.

The reason why having faith is so important is that it powerfully convinces you that everything will go according to plan.

That’s why, without faith, we are nothing.

To encourage you to have strong faith in a positive outcome and fight for your dreams, here are some inspirational faith quotes, faith sayings, and faith proverbs.

Inspirational faith quotes and sayings on being blessed

Have you been blessed in your life because of your faith?

1. Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith. – Kareena Kapoor Khan

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

3. The Lord is faithful to those who are faithful and earnestly seek Him. – Ben Lance

4. Faith is unquestioning belief. – Ronald Hopfer

5. Faith gives you inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life. – Gregory Peck

6. Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish. – Brad Henry

7. “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

8. Faith is building on what you know is here so you can reach what you know is there. – Cullen Hightower

9. 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

10. Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.  – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational faith quotes to give you inner strength

11. Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy. – Norman Vincent Peale

12. A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. – James E. Faust

13. “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”― J.R.R. Tolkien

14. “It is the things that we go through that prove our faith and test our godly character.”-  Scott F Neve

15. Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. – Voltaire

16. I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors. – Joel Osteen

17. “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

18. “Keep faith. The most amazing things in life tend to happen right at the moment you’re about to give up hope.” – Anonymous

19. “If one has faith, one has everything.” – Ramakrishna

20. “If you lose faith, you lose all.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational faith quotes to help take away your fears

21. “Don’t be afraid to step out in faith for God.” – Olivia Hope

22. “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”― Corrie ten Boom

23. “Choose faith instead of fear, and life will become a lot more fun.” – Dave Willis

24. “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” –Mother Teresa

25. “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

26. “Follow your bliss, and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.” ― Joseph Campbell

27. “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

28. “Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.” —Elisabeth Elliot

29. “God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.” —A.W. Tozer

30. “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” – Roald Dahl

Inspirational faith quotes and sayings to get you through pain and difficulties

31. “Otherwise without faith it becomes very difficult to keep pushing forward every day.” – Darrin Wiggins

32. “Let us keep moving,” I urged them, “with the faith that what we are doing is right, and with the even greater faith that God is with us in the struggle.” – Martin Luther King Jr

33. “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

34. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” ― William Faulkner

35. “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” ― Pablo Neruda

36. “Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.” – Kahlil Gibran

37. “Great things happen to those who don’t stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.” – Roy T. Bennett

38. “Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” – Rabindranath Tagore

39. “It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

40. “If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.” – Roopleen

More inspirational faith quotes and sayings

41. “Worrying is arrogant because God knows what He’s doing.” —Barbara Cameron

42. “Have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting.” – Roy T. Bennett

43. “Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.” – Thomas Merton

44. “Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.” – Paul Tillich

45. There is never a moment when God is not in control. Relax! He’s got you covered.  – Mandy Hale

46. Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.  – M. Antoninus

47. “Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods” – C.S. Lewis

48. To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed, not in darkness, but in light – Mother Teresa

49. “You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.” – Mary Manin Morrissey

50. “Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.” – Kahlil Gibran

Uplifting faith quotes to inspire you

51. “Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the sense.” – Henry Ward Beech

52. “Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right.” ~John Donne

53. “Faith is a choice to trust God even when the road ahead seems uncertain.” – Dave Willis

54. “Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is.” ~Colette Baron-Reid

55. “To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.” – Thomas Aquinas

56. “Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”-
Dante Alighieri

57. “If you will believe and stay in faith, and expect good things, you too can defy the odds.” – Joel Osteen

58. “Faith that lives on emotion dies with emotion. Faith that is rooted, not in how we feel but in how we live, survives the emotional roller coaster of the holiday seasons.” – S. Joseph Krempa

59. “Faith is not merely hope, and it must be more than belief; faith is a knowing of the heart.” – Rev. Floyd and M. Elaine Flake

60. “Faith is a firm trust and conviction that sometimes if God doesn’t give you what you think you want, it’s not because you don’t deserve it, but because you deserve better.” – David A. R. White

Faith quotes to inspire hope and love

61. “To me faith means not worrying.” ~John Dewey

62. “Feed your faith and your fear will starve.” – Anonymous

63. “Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.” ~Robert Brault

64. “See the best. Forgive the worst. Forget the bad. Always have faith.” – Melissa Eshleman

65. “In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.” ~Blaise Pascal

66. “Be believing, be happy, don’t get discouraged. Things will work out.”
– Gordon B. Hinckley

67. “Every man should believe in something. If not… he would doubt everything, even himself.” – Toba Beta

68. “When fear knocks, let faith answer the door.” – Robin Roberts

69. “By faith, we believe God provides and we hold to the truth that He will not lie.”- Lynn R. Davis

70. “Sometimes the only means of transportation is a leap of faith.” – Susan J. Decuir

Faith quotes to inspire and teach

71. “Hearing how God is moving in other places encourages and inspires our faith for what God wants to do in our own corner of the world.” – Matt Brown

72. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller

73. “When you have faith in God, you don’t have to worry about the future. You just know it’s all in His hands. You just go to and do your best.” – Elder Bryan

74. “God delights in answering the prayer of faith.” – K. P. Yohannan

75. “It’s worth taking a risk when motivated by faith in God’s Word.” – Ruben Barreto

76. “Choosing a life of faith and the salvation of our souls requires that we let go of many things in this world.” – John Paul Thomas

77. “When we in faith embrace Christ as our Lord and Savior, our minds are transformed.” – John MacArthur Jr.

78. “Faith is unseen but felt, faith is strength when we feel we have none, faith is hope when all seems lost.” – Catherine Pulsifer

79. “Faith is not the power of positive thinking; it is believing in God and trusting that His will is always best even when you cannot understand why.” – Shari Howerton

80. “Our faith comes in moments . . . yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

More faith quotes and sayings

81. “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” – J.M. Barrie

82. “I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.” – Edgar Allan Poe

83. “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” – Soren Kierkegaard

84. “Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.” – Mitch Albom

85. “We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.” – Martin Luther

86. “The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.” – Rob Bell

87. “You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.” – Rick Warren

88. “Faith ― acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.” – Dan Brown

89. “God is our defender, we know no defeat.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

90. “Life is neither for feast nor fun but defender living.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

Faith quotes to encourage you

91. “Don’t let the lions stop you from living. Face them with faith.” – Sadie Robertson

92. “God will never give you anything you can’t handle, so don’t stress.” – Kelly Clarkson

93. “God continues to work miracles in my life.” – Willie Aames

94. “Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.” – Joel Osteen

95. “No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!” – Joyce Meyer

96. “We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That’s why we have the gift of faith.” – Joyce Meyer

97. “Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith.” – Sean Bean

98. “Obedience is the fruit of faith.” – Christina Rossetti

99. “After I became confident in Him it didn’t matter what anyone said because I was confident in something and someone way bigger than myself.” – Sadie Robertson

100. “God has -done a complete work in my life, and I know He wants to do the same for you.” – Sadie Robertson

Inspirational Faith Quotes and Sayings On the Importance Of Having Faith

101. “Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.” — Ben Carson

102. “Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.” — Garth Brooks

103. “The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.” — Henry David Thoreau

104. “Faith that it’s not always in your hands or things don’t always go the way you planned, but you have to have faith that there is a plan for you, and you must follow your heart and believe in yourself no matter what.” — Martina McBride

105. “Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.” — Mahalia Jackson

106. “Every day you need to get a full dose of the Word and meditate on scripture, and if you discipline yourself and remain consistent, your faith will grow and mature, and remember that God, the Word, and your faith, is a recipe for success.” — Stephanie Williams

107. “I’m not perfect. I’m never going to be. And that’s the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, if you’re trying to get better every day. You’re trying to improve.” — Tim Tebow

108. “If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that.” — Karlie Kloss

109. “I believe that God has put gifts and talents and abilities on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.” — Joel Osteen

110. “Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.” — Martin Luther

Inspirational Faith Quotes And Sayings To Bless Your Day

111. “The situations that will stretch your faith most will be those times when life falls apart and God is nowhere to be found. This happened to Job.” — Rick Warren

112. “So keep your faith in the God above, and faith in the righteous truth, it shall bring you back to the absent love, and the joys of a vanished youth.” — Edgar A Guest

113. “Prayer will change a heartache into a cheerful song, If in faith you ask it, the answer will soon come ‘long.” — Eldred Herbert

114. “God is only as strong as your belief in him.” ― Sachin Kumar Puli

115. “Who is of so little faith that in a moment of great disaster or heartbreak has not called to his God?” — Og Mandino

116. “Faith is a very important attribute to positive thinking.” — Hanif Raah

117. “It is true that a prayer that comes from the heart can move mountains, it increases your faith, and brings you closer to God.” — Rebecca Small

118. “And it is not just faith, mark you, which changes the situation; it is faith in what God has said.” — T. Austin-Sparks

119. “Faith enables the mourner to believe things will improve and there will be better days ahead.” — Phyllis McElwain

120. “Faith Is the Solution, Not the Problem.” — Patrick R. Dunmire

Faith Quotes And Sayings To Help You Pursue Your Dreams

121. “Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.” — Sir William Osler

122. “Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” — Madeleine L’Engle

123. “Faith is no irresponsible shot in the dark. It is a responsible trust in God, who knows the desires of your hearts, the dreams you are given, and the goals you have set. He will guide your paths right.” — Robert Schuller

124. “Have faith, knowing tomorrow will hold the blessings of God.” — Robert Schuller, Jr

125. “Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.” — Joseph Addison

126. “Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.” — Diane Sawyer

127. “Faith is having a positive attitude about what you can do and not worrying at all about what you can’t do.” — Joyce Meyer

128. “You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.” — A. J. McLean

129. “When you release your faith in uncommon ways, you’ll see God do uncommon things.” — Joel Osteen

130. “Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.” — Robert Collyer

Inspirational Faith Quotes and Saying To Improve Your Faith

131. “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

132. “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

133. “Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

134. “Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana

135. “It doesn’t matter how huge the mountains in our lives and communities seem to be, they are nothing for the woman or man of faith.” — Sammy Tippit

136. “Faith is not the belief that everything will be all right tomorrow, but the belief that I possess the strength to make everything all right today.” — Charles F. Glassman

137. “My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.” — Denzel Washington

138. “The beautiful thing about this adventure called faith is that we can count on Him never to lead us astray.” — Chuck Swindoll

139. “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

140. “If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.” — William Hazlitt

Inspirational Faith Quotes And Sayings To Make You Believe

141. “There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true self.” ― William James

142. “Faith is a passionate intuition.” ― William Wordsworth

143. “You can be anything you want to be, if you only believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” ― Napoleon Hill

144. “Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.” ― Erich Fromm

145. “Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.” ― Carter Heyward

146. “Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring something regardless of the consequences.” ― Sherwood Eddy

147. “You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.” ― Samuel Butler

148. “Without faith it is impossible to please God, and without faith it is impossible for you to become great. The distinguishing characteristic of all really great men and women is an unwavering faith.” ― Wallace D. Wattles

149. “Faith means being sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing something is real, this moment, all around you, even when you don’t see it.” ― Joni Eareckson Tada

150. “Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.” ― William James

Inspirational Faith Quotes to Nourish the Soul

151. “Your faithfulness makes you trustworthy to God.” ― Edwin Louis Cole

152. “Sometimes you have to smile by faith. If you’ll smile by faith, soon the joy will follow.” ― Joel Osteen

153. “It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.” ― Thomas Paine

154. “Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.” ― Thomas Aquinas

155. “Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.” ― Mark Victor Hansen

156. “For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven’s authority.” ― John Dryden

157. “At this very moment, God’s working behind the scenes in your life, arranging things in your favor. Stay in faith!” ― Joel Osteen

158. “Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.” ― E. M. Forster

159. “If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

160. “Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.” ― Victor Hugo

Inspirational Faith Quotes and Sayings To Overcome Adversity

161. “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

162. “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.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

163. “But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.” — Maya Angelou

164. “Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.” — Corrie ten Boom

165. “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.” —Nelson Mandela

166. “There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds” — Alfred Lord Tennyson

167. Destiny is for the daring and determined who are willing to, at times, endure some discomfort, delayed gratification, and go where destiny leads.” — Bishop T.D. Jakes

168. “We lack faith in what exists within us because we lack faith in Who exists within us.” — Marianne Williamson

169. “If you give up on your faith now, could you live with knowing that your chance of a lifetime was only one act of faith away? — DeVon Franklin

170. “True faith is not a leap into the dark; it’s a leap into the light.” —Eric Metaxas

Inspirational Faith Quotes and Sayings To Remember God’s Presence

These are perfect if you believe that God has a plan for your life.

171. “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

172. “Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!” ― Latoya Alston

173. “When you trust your inner guidance and begin moving in the direction of your dreams (aligned with your individual gifts) you will be cloaked in an armor bestowed upon you by your guardian angel.” — Charles F. Glassman

174. “When something terrible happens, people respond to it in two ways. Either they lose their faith in God altogether, or they start believing in him even more.” ― Abhaidev

175. “Keep the faith. The vision is always for the appointed time. Be patient, prayerful and wait for the fulfillment of your visions.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita

176. “Learning to let go is not giving up! It is simply passing the burden to a better fighter, so you can fight another day. (God)” — Shannon L. Alder

177. “The only way you’re going to reach places you’ve never gone is if you trust God’s direction to do things you’ve never done.”— Germany Kent

178. “Do not come into agreement with fear. Activate your faith, live in victory, speak over your life and expect great things to come your way.” ― Germany Kent

179. “Faith in God will elevate you to next level blessings.” ― Germany Kent

180. “Hang on! God will be thy strength in any act of your pursuit.”― Lailah Gifty Akita

181. “So to change and grow in God, we need to have faith.” ― G B Woodcock

182. “Christian giving is not a matter of finance, it is a matter of faith.” ― John Blanchard

183. “Faith talks in the language of God. Doubt talks in the language of man.” ― E.W. Kenyon

184. “I think we all would do better to pray prayers that ask God to increase our faith before He increases our joy.” ― Candace Payne

185. “And one of the best ways to grow in faith is to share your faith.” ― Caleb Breakey

186. ‘Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God and by studying, you will maintain a holy life in this world.” ― Pastor Paul Rika

187. “Faith for the journey of walking with God leads to encounters with God.” ― Bill Johnson

188. “May your faith be strengthened and your heart filled with joy as we celebrate our Savior’s birth.” ― Ray Pritchard

189. “The end of an honorable life is abundant and eternal life. It comes from living in faith.” ― Kenneth Copeland

190. “God is capable of discerning the thoughts and intents of the heart, and answers prayers of faith both spoken and unspoken. It’s all about faith.” ― Luis Ranzolin

Which faith quotes were your favorites?

Even though life is unpredictable, having faith allows us to access a source of strength and hope that would otherwise not be reachable.

Hopefully, these faith quotes have inspired you to have strong faith that things will go according to plan and encouraged you to fight for your dreams.

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