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

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

William Hazlitt

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

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

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

Bronte, Emily

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

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Bible

Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

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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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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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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

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

Donne, 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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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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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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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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To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

Einstein, Albert

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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of GodÆs existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

Real Live Preacher

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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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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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Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.

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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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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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All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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

Benedict, Ruth

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Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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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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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell