Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Miller, Henry

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Harrington, Bob

Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

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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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.

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When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

Teller, Edward

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

Cooley, Mason

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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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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 is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Donne, John

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

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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

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There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Ward, C. M.

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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 errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.

Russell, Thomas

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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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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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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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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.