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

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

William Shakespeare

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

James, William

What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Shakti Gawain

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

Bible

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

James, William

Bakker, Jim

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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, 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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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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

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At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

Lucado, Max L.

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Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Stott, John R.

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And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Haggai, John

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

William Hazlitt

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

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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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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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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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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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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: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.

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

Luther, Martin