Motivational Quotes

Faith

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Faith

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]

Bible

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

Bronte, Emily

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Donne, John

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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.

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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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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 not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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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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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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.

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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.

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

Stott, John R.

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

Bible

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

29.

Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Curtis, Donald

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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 is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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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Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

Webster, Daniel

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

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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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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All things are possible to him who believes. [Mark 9:23]

Bible

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Auden, W. H.

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

William Hazlitt

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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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As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.

Salter, William

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As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.