Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Cooley, Mason

Best Quotes about Faith

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bernard, St.

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

James, William

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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Luther, Martin

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You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Bakker, Jim

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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]

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

Young

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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.

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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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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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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, 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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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 can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

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

Cooley, Mason

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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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 without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Bernanos, Georges

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It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Dillard, Annie

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

Shoemaker, Samuel 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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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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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 means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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

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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

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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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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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The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.

Russell, Thomas