Motivational Quotes

Faith

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

- Benedict, Ruth

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Bible

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

Cooley, Mason

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Donne, John

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

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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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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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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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 certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Benedict, Ruth

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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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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

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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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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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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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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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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lewis, C. S.

31.

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

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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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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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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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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In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

Gurdjieff, George

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

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

James, William

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

William Shakespeare

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Stanislaw Lem

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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