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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Chambers, Oswald

Bakker, Jim

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Cooley, Mason

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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

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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Augustine, St.

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

James, William

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

Fromm, Erich

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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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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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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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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

James, William

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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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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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As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.

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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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.