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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Thackeray, William M.

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Barton, Bruce

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

More, Hannah

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Donne, John

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

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

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Russell, Thomas

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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

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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

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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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 to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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Moody, Dwight L.

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Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Curtis, Donald

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

Bible

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Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Shakti Gawain

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

William Hazlitt

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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

Bible

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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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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

Joyce, James

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Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

Ward, C. M.

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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 not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.