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

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Sand, George

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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

Stott, John R.

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

Cooley, Mason

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.

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

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

James, William

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]

Gardner, Ava

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

William Hazlitt

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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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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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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher

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

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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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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

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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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 means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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

Trueblood, Elton

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