Motivational Quotes

Faith

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.

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Luther, Martin

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Stanislaw Lem

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

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

It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually is just a slow leak.

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Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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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A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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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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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 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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As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.

Salter, William

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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 must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Luther, Martin

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

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Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it canÆt be taken on its own merits.

Dan Barker

27.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Donne, John

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

35.

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

Rogers, Adrian

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Cooley, Mason

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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 the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

49.

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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