Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Billings, Josh

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Luther, Martin

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

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

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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

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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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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Donne, John

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

James, William

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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 certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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

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Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Harrington, Bob

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

James, William

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

William Shakespeare

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

Benedict, Ruth

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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.