Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Tozer, A. W.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

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

James, William

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Cooley, Mason

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Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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God, I donÆt have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher

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

James, William

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Luther, Martin

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At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

Lucado, Max L.

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

Bernard, St.

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Donne, John

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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]

Bible

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

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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 is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Stott, John R.

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

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Fromm, Erich

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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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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Shakti Gawain

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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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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