Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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 can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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]

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

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.

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

Luther, Martin

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

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Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.

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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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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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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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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 not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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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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There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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]

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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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A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Harrington, Bob

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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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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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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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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

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

Luther, Martin

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