Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is not contrary to reason

- Eddy, Sherwood

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Jones, Rufus M.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Donne, John

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No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

Ward, C. M.

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

Young

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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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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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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 not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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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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

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

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Bernard, St.

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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 a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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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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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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Weil, Simone

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

Luther, Martin

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.