Sometimes you need someone else’s words to say what your own heart cannot quite form. The history of the Christian faith is full of men and women who put language to the experience of trusting God – through doubt, through suffering, through seasons of extraordinary joy and seasons of darkness.
These 50 powerful Christian quotes about faith are drawn from across the centuries – from the early church fathers to modern missionaries, from reformers to everyday believers who learned to trust God in the hard places. Let them sink in slowly.
Quotes on the Nature of Faith
“Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.” – Anonymous
“Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man’s power ends.” – George Mueller
“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.” – Thomas Aquinas
“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“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
Quotes on Faith and Trust
“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” – Corrie ten Boom
“I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.” – Philip Yancey
“God never said the journey would be easy, but he did say the arrival would be worthwhile.” – Max Lucado
“Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” – Jesus Christ (John 20:29)
“You can trust God right now to supply all your needs for today. And if your needs are more tomorrow, his supply will be greater also.” – Amy Carmichael
Quotes on Faith Through Suffering
“God is too wise to be mistaken. God is too good to be unkind. So when you don’t understand, when you can’t see his plan, when you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.” – Charles Spurgeon
“When you can’t put your situation in God’s hands, put your faith in God’s heart.” – Anonymous
“The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction.” – James Russell Lowell
“Our faith is not meant to get us out of a hard place; it is meant to get us through it.” – Joyce Meyer
“Sometimes God calms the storm; sometimes he lets the storm rage and calms his child.” – Anonymous
Quotes on Faith and Action
“Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, she will never fly with them to heaven.” – Francis Beaumont
“Step out in faith. You cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.” – David Lloyd George
“We are not called to be successful. We are called to be faithful.” – Mother Teresa
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger people.” – Phillips Brooks
“God doesn’t call the equipped. He equips the called.” – Anonymous
Quotes on Faith and Doubt
“Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.” – Paul Tillich
“A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.” – Arthur C. Clarke
“If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move.” – Jesus Christ (Matthew 17:20)
“My faith is not the mountain-moving kind, but it is the kind that holds on.” – Anonymous
“Faith and doubt are not opposites. Doubt is often the engine of deeper faith.” – Os Guinness
Quotes from the Reformers and Church Fathers
“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
“Our heart is restless until it finds its rest in Thee.” – Augustine of Hippo
“Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.” – Corrie ten Boom
“All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Unbelief is actually easier than faith; it is doubt that takes no courage at all.” – G.K. Chesterton
Quotes on Faith and Prayer
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.” – Soren Kierkegaard
“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.” – Oswald Chambers
“When we pray, coincidences happen. When we don’t, they don’t.” – William Temple
Quotes on Childlike Faith
“Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” – Jesus Christ (Matthew 18:3)
“The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief is the beginning of barrenness.” – Anonymous
“A childlike faith does not mean ignoring questions. It means trusting the Father even when the questions don’t have answers yet.” – Anonymous
Quotes for Hard Seasons
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” – Martin Luther
“When you go through deep waters, I will be with you.” – God (Isaiah 43:2)
“It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.” – Mother Teresa
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” – Jim Elliot
“Faith is not knowing what the future holds. It is knowing who holds the future.” – Anonymous
Final Quotes to Carry With You
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” – Jeremiah 29:11
“The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.'” – Billy Graham
“Faith is not shelter against difficulties, but belief in the face of all contradictions.” – Paul Tournier
“In all things God works for the good of those who love him.” – Romans 8:28
“Your faith has healed you. Go in peace.” – Jesus Christ (Luke 8:48)
Let these words do their work. Return to them in hard moments. Share the ones that hit home. And let your own story of faith add to this treasury of those who have trusted God and found him faithful.
