Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

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

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 is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher

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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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As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

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

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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Sand, George

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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

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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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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

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

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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

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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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Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

Webster, Daniel

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Benedict, Ruth

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Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

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There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

More, Hannah

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Russell, Thomas

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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.