Motivational Quotes

Faith

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

- Niebuhr, Reinhold

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Donne, John

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Bible

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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.

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

James, William

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There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Stanislaw Lem

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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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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 builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

William Hazlitt

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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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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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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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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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.