Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is not contrary to reason

- Eddy, Sherwood

Best Quotes about Faith

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

Evarts, William M.

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

William Shakespeare

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

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

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

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.

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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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

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.

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

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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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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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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

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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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Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

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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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

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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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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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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

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Stanislaw Lem