Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. 

~David S. Muzzey

Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. 

~Rabindranath Tagore

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. 

~Lillian Smith

Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. 

~Carter Lindberg

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.  ~Martin Luther King Jr.

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 not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

~Edith Hamilton

Faith is the continuation of reason.

~William Adams

As a weak limb grows stronger by exercise, so will your faith be strengthened by the very efforts you make in stretching it out toward things unseen.

~ James H. Aughey

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

~ Bible, Hebrews (ch. XI, v. 1)

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

~ Saint Aurelius Augustine (Augustine of Hippo)

Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.

~ Robert Collyer

The great act of faith is when man decides that he is not God.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Systems exercise the mind; but faith enlightens and guides it.

~ Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)