Definitions Of Faith Quotes & Sayings

Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn instead toward a definition of faith as openness to truth, whatever truth may turn out to be. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in. — Wm. Paul Young

I define a diva as a woman who possesses courage, beauty, style, and confidence. Based on that definitions, I've probably got a bit more work to do. — Faith Hill

The best definition I can find of faith is the dependence upon the veracity of another. The Bible definition in the 11th chapter of Hebrews is, 'Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.' In other words, faith says amen to everything that God says. Faith takes God without any ifs, If God says it, Faith says I believe it; Faith says amen to it. — Dwight L. Moody

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith. — Soren Kierkegaard

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

Faith is believing things by definition, which are not justified by reason. If it were justified by reason, it wouldn't be faith. It would just be ordinary belief. It's something you can't prove. That's what faith is, believing something you can't prove. — Colin McGinn

A definition of faith: everything will be alright by God's standards, maybe not ours, but by His for sure. — Mark R. Woodward

Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. — Ambrose Bierce

The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith. — Alphonsus Liguori

Every argument for God and every attribute ascribed to Him rests on a false metaphysical premise. None can survive for a moment on a correct metaphysics ...
Existence exists, and only existence exists. Existence is a primary: it is uncreated, indestructible, eternal. So if you are to postulate something beyond existence - some supernatural realm - you must do it by openly denying reason, dispensing with definitions, proofs, arguments, and saying flatly, "To Hell with argument, I have faith." That, of course, is a willful rejection of reason.
Objectivism advocates reason as man's sole means of knowledge, and therefore, for the reasons I have already given, it is atheist. It denies any supernatural dimension presented as a contradiction of nature, of existence. This applies not only to God, but also to every variant of the supernatural ever advocated or to be advocated. In other words, we accept reality, and that's all. — Leonard Peikoff

Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not. — John Hardon

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion. — Richard Dawkins

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I wanted to ask my father about his regrets. I wanted to ask him what was the worst thing he'd ever done. His greatest sin. I wanted to ask him if there was any reason why the Catholic Church would consider him for sainthood. I wanted to open up his dictionary and find the definitions for faith, hope, goodness, sadness, tomato, son, mother, husband, virginity, Jesus, wood, sacrifice, pain, foot, wife, thumb, hand, bread, and sex.
"Do you believe in God?" I asked my father.
"God has lots of potential," he said.
"When you pray," I asked him. "What do you pray about?"
"That's none of your business," he said.
We laughed. We waited for hours for somebody to help us. What is an Indian? I lifted my father and carried him across every border. — Sherman Alexie

God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith,
then, is built upon ignorance and hope. — Steve Allen

Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it. — Smiley Blanton