Motivational Quotes

Faith

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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Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Haggai, John

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

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

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

William Hazlitt

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

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

James, William

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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 must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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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 greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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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It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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 substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

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

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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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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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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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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

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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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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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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 a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Moody, Dwight L.