Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

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

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

10.

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

Billings, Josh

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

14.

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

Bronte, Emily

15.

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

16.

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.

17.

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

Donne, John

18.

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

Hightower, Cullen

19.

The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Hlavaty, Vaclav

20.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

22.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

23.

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

24.

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

Benedict, Ruth

25.

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

26.

When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

Teller, Edward

27.

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

29.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

30.

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

Harrington, Bob

31.

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

32.

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

33.

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

James, William

34.

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

Haggai, John

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

40.

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

Russell, Thomas

41.

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

42.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Pascal, Blaise

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

46.

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.

47.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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