Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Young

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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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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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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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

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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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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Donne, John

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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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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.

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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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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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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 a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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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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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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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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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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

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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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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

William Shakespeare

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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