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

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

Bronte, Emily

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20]

Bible

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Donne, John

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 a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Bible

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Benedict, Ruth

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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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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 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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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Stott, John R.

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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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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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A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Harrington, Bob

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

32.

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

James, William

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

Young

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As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

Donne, 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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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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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

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb