Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

- Fuller, R. Buckminster

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Bible

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

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Donne, John

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.

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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

Cooley, Mason

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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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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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.

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Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Bible

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

31.

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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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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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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Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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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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The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher

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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

More, Hannah

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It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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 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 is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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