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

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

Ward, C. M.

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

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

James, William

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Augustine, St.

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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Wooden, John

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

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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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The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Barton, Bruce

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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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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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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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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

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Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.

Wesley, John

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The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

James, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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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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We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually is just a slow leak.

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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 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

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques