Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

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.

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

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

Jones, Rufus M.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Hightower, Cullen

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

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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.

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

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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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

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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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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

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

Luther, Martin

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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 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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Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. [Peter 3:15]

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

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

Trueblood, Elton

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

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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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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Russell, Thomas

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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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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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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.

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