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

Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pope, Alexander

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Barton, Bruce

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

Donne, John

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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

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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 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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In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

Gurdjieff, George

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Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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]

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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 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 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 not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Bible

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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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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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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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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

James, William

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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.