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

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

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Donne, John

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

Moody, Dwight L.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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

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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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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 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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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

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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. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Cooley, Mason

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No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

Ward, C. M.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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

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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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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, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

Forster, Edward M.

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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]

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. [Peter 3:15]

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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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