Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Faith

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

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

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

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

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher

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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 means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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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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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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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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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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

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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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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 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 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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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

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

Stott, John R.