Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Faith

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Auden, W. H.

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

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

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

William Hazlitt

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

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.

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Bible

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 love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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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 is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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.

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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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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.

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

James, William

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

Pope, Alexander

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

James, William

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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 is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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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Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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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 is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Jones, Rufus M.