Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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.

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

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Harrington, Bob

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

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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 thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. [Mark 9:23]

Bible

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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

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Luther, Martin

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Rogers, Adrian

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As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

Donne, John

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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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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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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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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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

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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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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Edwards, Tryon

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

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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]

Bible

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

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

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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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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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God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

Holliwell, Raymond

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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

Joyce, James

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Spalding, John Lancaster