Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Ruskin, John

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]

Bible

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

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

Cooley, Mason

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.

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

Donne, John

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

Stott, John R.

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

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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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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.

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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Russell, Thomas

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

James, William

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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

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

Bible

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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 the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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God, I donÆt have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher

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

Bible

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

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Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]

Gardner, Ava

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

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.

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

Benedict, Ruth

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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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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges