Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Trueblood, Elton

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Young

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

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Sand, George

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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

James, William

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Dillard, Annie

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

Bible

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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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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 not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.

Salter, William

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Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Stott, John R.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Billings, Josh

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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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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Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Newman, Cardinal J.

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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John