Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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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

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

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

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

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Thackeray, William M.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Fromm, Erich

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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 not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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.

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

Haggai, John

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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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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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As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

Donne, John

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

James, William

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

Proverb, Indian

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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.

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

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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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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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 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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Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Tozer, A. W.

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

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Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Wooden, John