Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Fromm, Erich

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

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

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

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Haggai, John

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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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 is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Weil, Simone

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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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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

22.

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 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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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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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

26.

Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. [Peter 3:15]

Bible

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Ward, C. M.

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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

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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

Joyce, James

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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Dillard, Annie

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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