Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Cooley, Mason

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

10.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

11.

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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

Bible

21.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

William Shakespeare

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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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

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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

Evarts, William M.

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

Russell, Thomas

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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 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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At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

Lucado, Max L.

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

Stanislaw Lem

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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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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

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

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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 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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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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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.

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Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Curtis, Donald

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Trueblood, Elton

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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