Motivational Quotes

Faith

All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Bernard, St.

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.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Luther, Martin

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Greene, Graham

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

Stanislaw Lem

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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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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

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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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.

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

Proverb, Indian

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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

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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

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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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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 the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

William Shakespeare

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

Stott, John R.

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

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

Russell, Thomas

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

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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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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.