Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Rogers, Adrian

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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.

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

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

Ward, C. M.

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Luther, Martin

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

James, William

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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 a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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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As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.

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

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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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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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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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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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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 is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

More, Hannah

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Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Curtis, Donald

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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

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bronte, Emily