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

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

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

James, William

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

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

Bronte, Emily

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

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

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

Rogers, Adrian

Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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 substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Dillard, Annie

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

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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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All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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

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

Ward, C. M.

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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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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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Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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