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

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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

Haggai, John

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

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.

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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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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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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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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.

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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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That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary

Nerys, Major Kira

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

William Shakespeare

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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 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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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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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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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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 means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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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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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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Benedict, Ruth

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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

James, William

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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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The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.

Russell, Thomas

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

Cooley, Mason

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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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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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