Motivational Quotes

Faith

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.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

James, William

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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

Stott, John R.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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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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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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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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.

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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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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 builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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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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It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Bardot, Brigitte

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If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. [Mark 9:23]

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

William Hazlitt

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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]

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

Webster, Daniel

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

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

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Benedict, Ruth

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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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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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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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20]

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

Luther, Martin

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

Trueblood, Elton

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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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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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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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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn