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

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Russell, Thomas

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

James, William

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Trueblood, Elton

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

Spalding, John Lancaster

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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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 builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. [Hebrews 11:6]

Bible

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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

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

William Hazlitt

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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

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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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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.

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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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Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

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

Bible

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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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At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

Lucado, Max L.

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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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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

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

William Shakespeare

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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