80 Faith Quotes To Inspire You During Difficult Times

From people like Eleanor Roosevelt to Tim Tebow, this varied group of faith quotes and sayings is sure to inspire.

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Faith is a fundamental part of life, and leaning on faith in difficult situations can help us overcome even the most trying times in life. Whether you're looking for Bible quotes about faith or simple reminders to have faith in yourself, there's something for everyone in this list of inspiring quotes.

01 of 06

Quotes To Channel Your Faith In God

Martin Luther Quote About Faith

Southern Living

  • "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
  • "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 Mathison
  • "Faith is unseen but felt, faith is strength when we feel we have none, faith is hope when all seems lost." — Catherine Pulsifer
  • "Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams." — Ben Carson
  • "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
  • "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
  • "And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith." — Matthew 21:2
  • "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
  • "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
  • "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
  • "We can look at Job, we can look at Lamentations, we can look at the Psalms, we can look at so many heroes of the faith who at different times had questions, who faced unbelief, yet God kept them, and they continued, in their doubts, to lean towards God, to lean and doubt in a way that continued to keep them attached to the vine and seeking Jesus in all of it." — Laura Wifler
  • "Every single thing He has ever or will ever say is true. The simplicity of faith is this: taking God’s Word for it." — Jackie Hill Perry
  • "We can let go of burdens like condemnation and worry, perfectionism and insecurity. And we can cling desperately—even through tears—to the assurance that God knows, he cares, and he loves us with an infinite love. We can lay our burdens at the feet of Christ and receive what he offers instead." — Sarah J. Hauser
  • "The answer to our fears is faith—real, fear-shrinking faith—in the God who loves us and gave himself for us." — Jani Ortlund
02 of 06

Sayings About Trusting Yourself

Faith and Love Quote

Southern Living

  • "If you lose faith, you lose all." — Eleanor Roosevelt
  • "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 Watts
  • "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
  • "Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith." — Garth Brooks
  • "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
  • "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
  • "Believe in yourself when nobody else does." — Mary J. Blige
  • "You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground." — A. J. McLean
  • "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • "Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them." — Mahalia Jackso
  • "What is your purpose? Why are you here? Start small and find out." — Nannie Helen Burroughs
  • “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” — J. M. Barrie
03 of 06

Quotes About The Importance Of Faith

Small Faith Quote

Southern Living

  • "The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness." — Henry David Thoreau
  • "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
  • "Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them." — Mahalia Jackson
  • "The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith." — Billy Graham
  • "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, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve." — Tim Tebow
  • "Always believe in yourself and keep going. You don't have to have the most talent in the world. You don't have to be the smartest person in the world. If you persist and you persist and you persist, you will be successful." — Dean Cain
  • "If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that." — Karlie Kloss
  • "Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother." — Khalil Gibran
  • "Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. ' — Helen Keller
  • "Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life." — Gregory Peck
  • "True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie." — A.W. Tozer
04 of 06

Quotes About Faith That Will Lift You

Quote About Faith and Belief

Southern Living

  • "In faith, there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t." — Blaise Pascal
  • "Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe." — Voltaire
  • "Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes." — Beth Moore
  • "Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.” — C.S. Lewis
  • "Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe." — Saint Augustine
  • "Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth." — Susan L. Taylor
  • "I don't think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith." — Nicholas Sparks
  • "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God." — Corrie ten Boom
  • "Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith." — A.W. Tozer
  • "All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless." — G.K. Chesterton
  • "Faith is not contrary to reason." — Sherwood Eddy
  • "Sometimes the worst conditions can often provide the best atmosphere to act in faith. God doesn't want our confidence regulated by our audience. If faith-discouragers can shake our confidence badly enough to disable us, our confidence may be in ourselves instead of God." — Beth Moore
  • "It is a blessing for our children to see us live out our faith—trusting in God’s good character and provision—even when we don’t have all the answers." — Marissa Bondurant
  • "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
  • "I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason." — Elie Wiesel
05 of 06

Quotes From The Bible To Strengthen Your Faith

Hebrews 11:1

Southern Living

  • "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." — Hebrews 11:1
  • "Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday." — Psalm 37:5-6
  • "For nothing will be impossible with God." — Luke 1:37
  • "Then Jesus said, 'Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?'” — John 11:40
  • "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast." — Ephesians 2:8-9
  • "But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind." — James 1:6
  • "And Jesus said to him, 'Go your way; your faith has made you well.' And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him on the way." — Mark 10:52
  • "But someone will say, 'You have faith and I have works.' Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works." — James 2:18
  • "In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven." — Matthew 5:16
  • "For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith." — 1 John 5:4
  • “And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.” — Hebrews 11:6
  • “Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.” — 1 Peter 1:8-9
  • “Because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.” — James 1:3
  • “And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise.” — Hebrews 11:11
  • “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” — John 3:16
06 of 06

Quotes About Acknowledging Your Support System

Don't Lose Faith Quote

Southern Living

  • "Just as love is a verb, so is faith.” — Nannie Helen Burroughs
  • "If you have a good support system like your family and your friends around you, then you can't go wrong. So just believe in yourself, do you your thing, and stay strong in what you believe in." — Roman Reigns
  • "Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them." — Steve Jobs
  • "I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability 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
  • "It's important to believe in yourself and the beauty of your dreams and to not let anyone tell you different." — Victoria Arlen
  • "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
  • "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." — Mahatma Gandhi
  • "Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe." — Mitch Albom
  • "Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light." — Helen Keller
  • "Faith is a state of openness or trust." — Alan Watts
  • "In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure." — J.R.R. Tolkien
  • "Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see." — Corrie ten Boom
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