Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Ruskin, John

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

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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.

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

Haggai, John

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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]

Bible

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

James, William

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

Stanislaw Lem

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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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'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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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

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

Bible

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

31.

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Curtis, Donald

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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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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.

Barton, Bruce

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

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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.