Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Pascal, Blaise

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Stott, John R.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

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

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Benedict, Ruth

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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 love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Stanislaw Lem

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Young

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Hightower, Cullen

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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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 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, 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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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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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

More, Hannah

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

James, William