Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Pope, Alexander

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Augustine, St.

No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

Ward, C. M.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Donne, John

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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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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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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All things are possible to him who believes. [Mark 9:23]

Bible

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And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher

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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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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

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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 that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

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

Trueblood, Elton

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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Wooden, John

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Bible

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Mueller, George E.

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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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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Young

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God, I donÆt have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher

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

Harrington, Bob

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