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

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

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.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Bible

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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 not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Harrington, Bob

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In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

Gurdjieff, George

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Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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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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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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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

William Shakespeare

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

Rogers, Adrian

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

William Hazlitt

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

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

Bible

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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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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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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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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