Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is the refusal to panic.

- Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

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

Stott, John R.

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

James, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

William Shakespeare

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Benedict, Ruth

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Bernard, St.

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Ward, C. M.

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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 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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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 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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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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You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Bakker, Jim

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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 not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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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 that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

38.

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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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, 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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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Dillard, Annie

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

Stanislaw Lem

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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.