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

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

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

Haggai, John

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Luther, Martin

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

James, William

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

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

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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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

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20]

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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 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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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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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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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Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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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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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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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

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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 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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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Jones, Rufus M.

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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

Teller, Edward

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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 love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery