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 is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Tozer, A. W.

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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.

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

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Russell, Thomas

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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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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

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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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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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

William Shakespeare

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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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin