Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Young

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Donne, John

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.

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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

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

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

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 is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Ward, C. M.

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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Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Hightower, Cullen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

George E. Woodberry

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Thackeray, William M.

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Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Beaumont, Francis

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

William Shakespeare

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

James, William

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

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

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