Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Ward, C. M.

Best Quotes about Faith

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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

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

Donne, John

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

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

Evarts, William M.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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

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

As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

Donne, John

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Proverb, Indian

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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

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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

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

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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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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 you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Greene, Graham

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

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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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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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

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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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

Holliwell, Raymond

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All things are possible to him who believes. [Mark 9:23]

Bible

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

William Hazlitt

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The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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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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