Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Haggai, John

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Butler, Samuel

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Ward, C. M.

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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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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'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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

William Shakespeare

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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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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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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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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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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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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Ruskin, John

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Cooley, Mason