Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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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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.

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

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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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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

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

Donne, John

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Tozer, A. W.

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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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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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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

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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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Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

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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 certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

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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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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Harrington, Bob

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

James, William

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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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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.

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