Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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.

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

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

Hightower, Cullen

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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Luther, Martin

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

21.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Sand, George

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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.

Real Live Preacher

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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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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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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Bronte, Emily

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

William Shakespeare

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

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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Benedict, Ruth

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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Edwards, Tryon