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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Luther, Martin

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.

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

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

Luther, Martin

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

George E. Woodberry

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

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

14.

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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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 trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Hightower, Cullen

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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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

21.

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

William Shakespeare

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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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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Auden, W. H.

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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Luther, Martin

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As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.

Salter, William

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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

James, William

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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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There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Jones, Rufus M.

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Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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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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 not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.

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

William Hazlitt

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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

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

Stanislaw Lem

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Young

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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