Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

- Roberts, B.H.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Russell, Thomas

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Hlavaty, Vaclav

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. [Mark 9:23]

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

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

Young

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

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

21.

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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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

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Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

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

Bible

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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Luther, Martin

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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

James, William

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

Stott, John R.

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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 building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bardot, Brigitte