Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Mueller, George E.

Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

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

Proverb, Indian

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.

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

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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

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Miller, Henry

Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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]

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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Stott, John R.

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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 means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Harrington, Bob

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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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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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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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

Joyce, James

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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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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually is just a slow leak.

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

Hightower, Cullen

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

James, William

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Russell, Thomas

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary

Nerys, Major Kira

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

Young

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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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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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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