Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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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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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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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Donne, John

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It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ward, C. M.

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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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Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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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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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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.

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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, 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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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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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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'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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And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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.