Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Young

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Russell, Thomas

Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

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

Donne, John

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.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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.

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

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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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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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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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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]

Bible

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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

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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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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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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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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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 is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bible

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

James, William

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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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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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The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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