Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Spalding, John Lancaster

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Fromm, Erich

Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]

Gardner, Ava

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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 love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Harrington, Bob

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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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Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

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

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

Russell, Thomas

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It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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 means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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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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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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God, I donÆt have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher

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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 builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

Joyce, James

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

Bible

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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]

Bible

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Cooley, Mason

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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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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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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Auden, W. H.