Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Augustine, St.

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

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

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

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

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

Bernard, St.

Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Stott, John R.

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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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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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]

Bible

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As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

Donne, John

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Rogers, Adrian

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All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Bible

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God, I donÆt have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

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The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.

Russell, Thomas

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Beaumont, Francis

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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

William Shakespeare

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As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.

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

James, William

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We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of GodÆs existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

Real Live Preacher

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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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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 feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Cooley, Mason

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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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The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher

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