Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Bible

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

Bierce, Ambrose

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

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

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

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

William Hazlitt

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

Bronte, Emily

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

13.

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

14.

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

15.

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Hlavaty, Vaclav

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

23.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

24.

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

25.

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

26.

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.

27.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

30.

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

31.

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

Rogers, Adrian

32.

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

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

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

Cooley, Mason

39.

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

Russell, Thomas

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

James, William

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

50.

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