Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

- Bailey, Henry Christopher

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Russell, Thomas

Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.

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.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. [Hebrews 11:6]

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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

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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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.

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The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Mueller, George E.

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

James, William

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Young

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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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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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 different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

Bronte, Emily

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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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We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually is just a slow leak.

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Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]

Gardner, Ava

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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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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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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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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.