Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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.

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What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Shakti Gawain

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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

12.

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

Stanislaw Lem

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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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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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]

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

William Shakespeare

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It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

Evarts, William M.

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The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.

Russell, Thomas

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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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Bible

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Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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 an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Luther, Martin

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

Cooley, Mason

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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Miller, Henry

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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