Motivational Quotes

Faith

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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Best Quotes about Faith

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

Thackeray, William M.

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

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Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

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

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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.

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Bronte, Emily

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Hightower, Cullen

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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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Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

Webster, Daniel

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

Chambers, Oswald

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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, Indian

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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

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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

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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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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it canÆt be taken on its own merits.

Dan Barker

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

Luther, Martin

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.

Wesley, John

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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]

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