Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

- Lewis, C. S.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Sand, George

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

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

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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

Bible

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We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually is just a slow leak.

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Weil, Simone

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

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

James, William

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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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

William Hazlitt

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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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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 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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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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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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