Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is a continuation of reason.

- Adams, William

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

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.

Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Carlyle, Thomas

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

Spalding, John Lancaster

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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Greene, Graham

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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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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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Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Cooley, Mason

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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 certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Harrington, Bob

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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

Bronte, Emily

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

Luther, Martin

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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

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

Bible

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Tozer, A. W.

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Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

Webster, Daniel

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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Miller, Henry

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

Stott, John R.

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary

Nerys, Major Kira

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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bible

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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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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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If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

George E. Woodberry

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If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. [Mark 9:23]

Bible

49.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar