Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Bible

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Bible

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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.

13.

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

Gurdjieff, George

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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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Luther, Martin

18.

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

19.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

20.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.

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

Stanislaw Lem

26.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

27.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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

29.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

30.

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

Rogers, Adrian

31.

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

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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

35.

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

James, William

36.

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

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

37.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

39.

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

James, William

40.

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

Pope, Alexander

41.

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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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

43.

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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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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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

46.

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

Proverb, Indian

47.

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

48.

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

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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 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