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

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.

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.

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

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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.

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

Fromm, Erich

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

James, William

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Young

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

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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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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Cooley, Mason

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

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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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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.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Stanislaw Lem

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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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

Hightower, Cullen

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

Proverb, Indian

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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Luther, Martin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Donne, John