Motivational Quotes

Faith

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

- Rutherford, Samuel

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

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

Bronte, Emily

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Wooden, John

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

Bardot, Brigitte

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Bible

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Benedict, Ruth

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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

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

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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

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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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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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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 think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

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

James, William

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

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Thackeray, William M.

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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

William Shakespeare

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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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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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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich