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

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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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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

3.

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

Stott, John R.

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If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. [Mark 9:23]

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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.

6.

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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Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

8.

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

Benedict, Ruth

10.

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

Cooley, Mason

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

James, William

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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

16.

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

Russell, Thomas

17.

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

Donne, John

18.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

19.

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

20.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Ruskin, John

22.

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

23.

Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

24.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

25.

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

26.

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

Bardot, Brigitte

27.

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

28.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Young

31.

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

32.

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

Harrington, Bob

33.

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

34.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

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

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36.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

37.

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

Pope, Alexander

38.

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.

39.

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

40.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

41.

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

42.

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. [Hebrews 11:6]

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43.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

44.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

47.

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.

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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

49.

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

50.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Pascal, Blaise