Motivational Quotes

Faith

If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. [Mark 9:23]

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Best Quotes about Faith

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

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

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Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

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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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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 faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

More, Hannah

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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Harrington, Bob

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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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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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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

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

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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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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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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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As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

Donne, John

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

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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 is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Gandhi, Mahatma