Denzel Washington Quotes

Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

One thing I do believe is I'm a believer in the presence of God. I believe that God is close. Whether it's in joy, pain or personal failure, I believe that God is close. That much I feel in my life.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

I have never lost my faith in God.

Real faith is when you believe in something that you can't see. When things are going really bad and you can still get up and say I believe that they're gonna get better, that there's a higher lesson to what I'm going through. It can be hard sometimes, and to turn it around like that, that's true faith.

No matter what we face, put your total faith in God, and in time - not our time, but His time - He'll bring us through.

Act of Faith

I don't think you need to justify faith, faith is its own justification.

Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything. When people have real faith in something, it's fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind.

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

I believe that the interior life is the same for all of us. And because they're steeped in faith, Irish-American Catholics are a people who have a language for the examined life.

God isn't present in the past or future. The great 'I Am' is in the present moment. When I claim that presence, I can get through anything today.

I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

I prayed a lot. That's all I had in the gym; that was the thing I could turn to.

I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.

The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.