Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

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

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

Einstein, Albert

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

Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Harrington, Bob

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

William Shakespeare

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

Webster, Daniel

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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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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Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.

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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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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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A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

Rogers, Adrian

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

Young

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Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

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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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Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it canÆt be taken on its own merits.

Dan Barker

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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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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

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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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.