Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Luther, Martin

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.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

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

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Harrington, Bob

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Luther, Martin

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

Donne, John

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

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

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

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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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

William Hazlitt

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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Russell, Thomas

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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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Bible

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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

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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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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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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