Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

- Roberts, B.H.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Cooley, Mason

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

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

Young

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.

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Thomas

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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. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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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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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

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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Bible

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

James, William

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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 something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Ward, C. M.

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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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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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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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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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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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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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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.

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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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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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 means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William