Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

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Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Cooley, Mason

A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

Proverb, Indian

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

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

William Shakespeare

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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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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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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 the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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 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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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

James, William

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

Bernard, St.

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We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually is just a slow leak.

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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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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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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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.