Motivational Quotes

Faith

Reason is the enemy of faith.

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Faith

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

Evarts, William M.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

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

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

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

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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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Luther, Martin

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Donne, John

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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.

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

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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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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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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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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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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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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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Young

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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.