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 has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it canÆt be taken on its own merits.

Dan Barker

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

Proverb, Indian

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Stott, John R.

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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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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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Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

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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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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

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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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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.

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

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

Cooley, Mason

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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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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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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 the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Bible

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

James, William

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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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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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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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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

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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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The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Barton, Bruce

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Russell, Thomas

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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 builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

George E. Woodberry

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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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Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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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