Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is a continuation of reason.

- Adams, William

Best Quotes about Faith

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. [Hebrews 11:6]

Bible

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Benedict, Ruth

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 a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

10.

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

11.

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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Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

13.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

14.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Augustine, St.

16.

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

17.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it canÆt be taken on its own merits.

Dan Barker

18.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

19.

Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

20.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Stott, John R.

23.

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

24.

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

25.

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

26.

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

Hlavaty, Vaclav

27.

Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

28.

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

Gurdjieff, George

29.

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

30.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

31.

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.

32.

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

Bible

33.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

34.

You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Bakker, Jim

35.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

36.

Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

37.

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

38.

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Auden, W. H.

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There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

Butterworth, Eric

40.

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

41.

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

Bernard, St.

42.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

43.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

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

45.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, 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

47.

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

48.

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

Haggai, John

49.

No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

Ward, C. M.

50.

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