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

Chambers, Oswald

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 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

As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.

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

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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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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 is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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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]

Bible

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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 is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

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

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

Cooley, Mason

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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bible

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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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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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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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.

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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 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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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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher

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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann