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

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Greene, Graham

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

Haggai, John

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

James, William

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

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

Bible

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Bakker, Jim

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

Stott, John R.

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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.

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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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Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

Henry S. Haskins

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

James, William

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Mueller, George E.

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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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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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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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

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

Stanislaw Lem

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

William Hazlitt

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Russell, Thomas

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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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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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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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

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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

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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