Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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.

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

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

Young

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Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

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

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

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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 not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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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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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

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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Miller, Henry

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

Bronte, Emily

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Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

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

Stott, John R.

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

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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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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 trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Benedict, Ruth

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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