Motivational Quotes

Faith

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.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Luther, Martin

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

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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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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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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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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Frankl, Viktor E.

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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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

Young

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Bible

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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Benedict, Ruth

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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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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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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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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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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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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Sand, George

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The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Mueller, George E.

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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