John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

Faith, to be faith, must center around something that is not known. Faith, to be faith, must go beyond that for which there is confirming evidence. Faith, to be faith, must go into the unknown. Faith, to be faith, must walk to the edge of the light, and then a few steps into the darkness. If everything has to be known, if everything has to be explained, if everything has to be certified, then there is no need for faith. Indeed, there is no room for it.

Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.

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.

Faith does not ask for possible things; it demands impossible.

Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.

I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty.

There are things that must be done in faith, else they never have being.

I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.

It's called faith because it's not knowledge.

Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.

Without risk, faith is an impossibility.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.

When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses...what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

If you want to see the big stuff that God has, you've got to take some risk and trust only in the Gospel.

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

Every moment in life is an act of faith

Faith doesn't wait until it understands; in that case it wouldn't be faith.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

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

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.