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

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

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

Russell, Thomas

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

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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

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

Young

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Proverb, Indian

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

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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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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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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

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

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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

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

Hightower, Cullen

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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

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Haggai, John

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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

Evarts, William M.

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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 course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Donne, John

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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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You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Bakker, Jim

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

James, William

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

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

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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.