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

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

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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

Young

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Mueller, George E.

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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

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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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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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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]

Bible

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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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 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

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Bible

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Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.

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

Stanislaw Lem

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There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Jones, Rufus M.

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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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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

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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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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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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.