Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Chambers, Oswald

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Hightower, Cullen

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Donne, John

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Fromm, Erich

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

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

Ward, C. M.

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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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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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

James, William

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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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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 not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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

Luther, Martin

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Bible

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

William Hazlitt

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

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Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.

Wesley, John

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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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There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge