Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Shoemaker, Samuel M.

Best Quotes about Faith

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.

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

Young

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

William Shakespeare

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

Stott, John R.

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

Einstein, Albert

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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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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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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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As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

Donne, John

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

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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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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

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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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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

Henry S. Haskins

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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Haggai, John

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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 not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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

Bronte, Emily

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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