Motivational Quotes

Faith

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

- Lubbock, Sir John

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Tozer, A. W.

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Bernard, St.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

William Hazlitt

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In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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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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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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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

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

James, William

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

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Pascal, Blaise