Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Shoemaker, Samuel M.

Best Quotes about Faith

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Greene, Graham

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

James, William

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Mueller, George E.

We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of GodÆs existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

Real Live Preacher

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

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

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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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Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Ward, C. M.

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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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

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

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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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, 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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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 builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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

Stott, John R.

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

William Hazlitt

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

Bible

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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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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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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Cooley, Mason