Motivational Quotes

Faith

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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Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

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

Russell, Thomas

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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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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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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Luther, Martin

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Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

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

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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cooley, Mason

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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 trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

Ward, C. M.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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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

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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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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.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

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

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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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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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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