Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Ward, C. M.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Stanislaw Lem

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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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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'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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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

James, William

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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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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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

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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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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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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 is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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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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Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Young

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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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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

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

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Luther, Martin

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

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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