Motivational Quotes

Faith

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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Young

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.

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

William Shakespeare

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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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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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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The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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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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 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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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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

Stott, John R.

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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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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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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Bible

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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 means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Benedict, Ruth

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Bible

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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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 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