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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Russell, Thomas

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

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

Haggai, John

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

Augustine, St.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Benedict, Ruth

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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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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 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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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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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Pascal, Blaise

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We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of GodÆs existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

Real Live Preacher

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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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If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

George E. Woodberry

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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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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

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The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Mueller, George E.

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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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 trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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