Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Bernard, St.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Stott, John R.

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

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Auden, W. H.

Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.

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

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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

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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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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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Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Tozer, A. W.

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

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Ward, C. M.

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

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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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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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 builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

William Shakespeare

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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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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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Miller, Henry

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

William Hazlitt

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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.

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