Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Proverb, Indian

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Edwards, Tryon

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God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

James, William

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

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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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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 certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

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

Luther, Martin

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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 builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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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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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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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

James, William

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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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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

More, Hannah

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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 is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery