Motivational Quotes

Faith

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Cooley, Mason

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.

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

William Hazlitt

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

Bible

All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Hightower, Cullen

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

Benedict, Ruth

10.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

11.

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

Bible

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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

16.

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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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

18.

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

Fromm, Erich

19.

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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 the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

22.

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Young

28.

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

Hlavaty, Vaclav

29.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

30.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Greene, Graham

32.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

34.

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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

38.

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

41.

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 trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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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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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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Luther, Martin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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