Motivational Quotes

Faith

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Faith

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Bernard, St.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

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

Cooley, Mason

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

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Augustine, St.

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

Ward, C. M.

12.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. [Hebrews 11:6]

Bible

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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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The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Russell, Thomas

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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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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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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

Bronte, Emily

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

Haggai, John

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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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Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.

Wesley, John

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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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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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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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]

Bible

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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Luther, Martin

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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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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma