Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Benedict, Ruth

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Augustine, St.

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

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

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

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Hightower, Cullen

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

Donne, John

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Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]

Gardner, Ava

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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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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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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20]

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Stott, John R.

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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God, I donÆt have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher

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

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

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

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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 not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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

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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.