Motivational Quotes

Faith

That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary

- Nerys, Major Kira

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.

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

Stott, John R.

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

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

William Shakespeare

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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.

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

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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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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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Bible

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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]

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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Young

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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.

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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

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

Rogers, Adrian

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Miller, Henry

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

Bronte, Emily

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That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary

Nerys, Major Kira

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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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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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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Cooley, Mason

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Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. [Peter 3:15]

Bible

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Haggai, John

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Russell, Thomas

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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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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