James E. Faust Quotes

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Faith believes in spite of the circumstances and acts in spite of the consequences.

I have absolute faith in the correctness of my course.

If I wanted to doubt, then I could doubt endlessly, but at some point a person has to stop questioning and act, and at that point you have to trust something to be true. You have to act as if something is true, and so you choose the thing you have the most reason to believe in, you have to live in the world that you have the most hope in.

If you don't believe in it, you can't do it.

Going after what I believe in.

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

I never give up on my players, and I'll never give up on people.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.

I think it's the person's conviction that really carries a person.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

I have to trust what I do and then do it.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

I always believed it would happen and stuck to my guns.

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

We do it because we're committed, because we're believers.

I say to people today, 'You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.'

You have to believe. You have to stick to your guns.

Tell me sufficiently why a thing should be done, and I will move heaven and earth to do it.

When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.

You have to have the ultimate faith and belief in what you do.

There's not point in doing anything without conviction.

I always believe in the projects I do.

If you didn't want to believe in me, that's OK, because I'll make a believer out of you.