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

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

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

Mueller, George E.

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Bernard, St.

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Young

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

Hightower, Cullen

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

Bronte, Emily

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A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Harrington, Bob

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Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.

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

Bible

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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

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God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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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

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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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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

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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 a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

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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.