Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Stott, John R.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Fromm, Erich

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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

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Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

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

James, William

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

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

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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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

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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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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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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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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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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Stanislaw Lem

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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

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Sand, George

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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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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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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: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.

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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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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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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

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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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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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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.