Recognizing faith

in everyday life



Faith is more than belief or believing. It is a powerful and exhilarating attitude of the mind and heart that inspires us to live confidently and to persevere when we think we've lost everything.

We searched far and wide to compile a collection of perspectives on faith and hope you find them insightful and inspiring:




knowing that life is not a battle, but a process at which you cannot fail
Neale Donald Walsch


believing in the possibility of happiness
George Santayana


believing in the beauty of your dreams
Eleanor Roosevelt


bringing everything into the realm of possibility
Albert Einstein


recognizing that so many things we were taught to be afraid of are simply not true
Dannion Brinkley


reaching beyond your grasp
Robert Browning


testing your limits
Bernard Edmonds


taking the first step, not yet seeing the whole staircase
Martin Luther King Jr.


stepping into the seeming void and finding the rock beneath
Walt Whitman


trusting in your own inner voice
Peace Pilgrim


following your gut feeling
George Harrison


believing in yourself, realizing that you are you for a purpose and that nothing is an accident
Leo Buscaglia


throwing your dreams into space like a kite, not knowing what will come back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country
Anais Nin


nurturing your mind with great thoughts
Benjamin Disraeli


believing what you do not yet see
St. Augustine


believing that the universe is on our side
Marianne Williamson


knowing that while the bud may have a bitter taste, sweet will be the flower
William Cowper


depending on God
Swami Ramdas


trusting in God unhesitatingly
Albert Schweitzer


trusting God with all your heart, leaning not on your own understanding
Proverbs 3:5-6


never knowing where you are being led, but loving the One who is leading
Oswald Chambers


following the way of God without resistance
Meister Eckhart


remembering that what you have was once among the things only hoped for
Epicurus

knowing an answered prayer when you see it, and not giving up when you don't
Max Lucado


never giving up, enduring through every circumstance
1 Corinthians 13:4-7


rising every time we fall
Confucius


holding on when there is nothing in you except the will which says: 'Hold on!'
Rudyard Kipling


knowing that gray skies are only clouds passing over
Duke Ellington


believing that a few caring people can change the world—for, indeed, that's all who ever have
Margaret Mead