Motivational Quotes

Faith

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Bardot, Brigitte

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Benedict, Ruth

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

10.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

11.

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

Bible

12.

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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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.

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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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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

17.

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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

22.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

23.

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Fromm, Erich

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mueller, George E.

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.

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The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Hightower, Cullen

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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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Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

Evarts, William M.

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Bible

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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.