Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

Rogers, Adrian

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Miller, Henry

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A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

Proverb, Indian

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

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

Bible

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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

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

James, William

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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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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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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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That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary

Nerys, Major Kira

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Bible

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'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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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.

Real Live Preacher

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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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At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

Lucado, Max L.

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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.

Real Live Preacher

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

William Hazlitt