Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

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Best Quotes about Faith

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.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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]

Bible

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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 the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

20.

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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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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Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Tozer, A. W.

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

33.

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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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

Benedict, Ruth

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

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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.

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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.

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