Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Thackeray, William M.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Luther, Martin

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Pascal, Blaise

Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Donne, John

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

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Ward, C. M.

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

James, William

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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 course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Edwards, Tryon

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

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A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

Rogers, Adrian

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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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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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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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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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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Stanislaw Lem

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Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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 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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God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

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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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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

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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 is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. [Hebrews 11:6]

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