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

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 certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Young

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

William Shakespeare

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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Greene, Graham

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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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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

Ward, C. M.

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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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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Trueblood, Elton

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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Luther, Martin

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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

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Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

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

Luther, Martin

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

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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

James, William

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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 the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Benedict, Ruth

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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Haggai, John

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Non-violence is the article of faith.