Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

- Acquinas, Saint Thomas

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

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All things are possible to him who believes. [Mark 9:23]

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

Holliwell, Raymond

As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.

Salter, William

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

Rogers, Adrian

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Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

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The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Mueller, George E.

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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Sand, George

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It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

Evarts, William M.

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Luther, Martin

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Jones, Rufus M.

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Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Curtis, Donald

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It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20]

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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.

Luther, Martin

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The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Barton, Bruce

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A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

Proverb, Indian

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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

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To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

Einstein, Albert

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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

Forster, Edward M.

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Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.

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Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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When you get 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 how to fly.

Teller, Edward

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]

Gardner, Ava

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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

More, Hannah

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Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Benedict, Ruth

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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

James, William

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All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman