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

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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.

Real Live Preacher

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

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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 is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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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]

Bible

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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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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

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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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

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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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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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To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Young

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Russell, Thomas

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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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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

Bronte, Emily

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That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary

Nerys, Major Kira

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Shakti Gawain

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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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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

48.

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Harrington, Bob

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