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

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

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

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Russell, Thomas

Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

James, William

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

Jones, Rufus M.

10.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Benedict, Ruth

11.

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

12.

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

13.

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

14.

Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

15.

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

16.

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

Tozer, A. W.

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

Rogers, Adrian

20.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

25.

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

26.

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

27.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Augustine, St.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Cooley, Mason

32.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

33.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

34.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

35.

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.

36.

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

39.

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

40.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

41.

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

Bronte, Emily

42.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

46.

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

Bardot, Brigitte

47.

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

Bernanos, Georges

48.

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

49.

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

50.

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