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

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

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Ward, C. M.

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.

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

Stott, John R.

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Bible

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

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

Russell, Thomas

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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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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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.

Salter, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

James, William

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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 a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

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

Donne, John

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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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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There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

Butterworth, Eric

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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