Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

Proverb, Indian

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

James, William

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Augustine, St.

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Bible

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

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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

11.

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

Mueller, George E.

12.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

13.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

14.

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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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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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.

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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

18.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Pascal, Blaise

21.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Thomas

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Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

26.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Trueblood, Elton

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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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That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary

Nerys, Major Kira

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Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]

Gardner, Ava

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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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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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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

39.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

43.

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

44.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

45.

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

46.

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

Hightower, Cullen

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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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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Young