Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Faith

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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.

2.

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

3.

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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4.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

5.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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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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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

9.

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

James, William

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

13.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

14.

The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Hlavaty, Vaclav

15.

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

Butler, Samuel

16.

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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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

18.

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]

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19.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Beaumont, Francis

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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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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

22.

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

23.

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

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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.

25.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

27.

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

Bernanos, Georges

28.

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

Bronte, Emily

29.

To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

31.

All things are possible to him who believes. [Mark 9:23]

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32.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

34.

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