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

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

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

Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Luther, Martin

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

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Mueller, George E.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Bronte, Emily

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Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.

Wesley, John

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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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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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Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]

Gardner, Ava

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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Rogers, Adrian

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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

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

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

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

Ward, C. M.

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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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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

James, William

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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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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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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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You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Bakker, Jim

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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]

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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

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

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Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

Henry S. Haskins

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

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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