Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Spalding, John Lancaster

Best Quotes about Faith

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

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.

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

All things are possible to him who believes. [Mark 9:23]

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

Teller, Edward

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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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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]

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

James, William

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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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Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. [Peter 3:15]

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

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

William Hazlitt

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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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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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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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Haggai, John

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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

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Dillard, Annie

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true