Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

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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

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

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

James, William

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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 a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it canÆt be taken on its own merits.

Dan Barker

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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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 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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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

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

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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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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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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

James, William

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

William Hazlitt

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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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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

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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 love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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 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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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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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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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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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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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, 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]

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