Motivational Quotes

Faith

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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Best Quotes about Faith

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

James, William

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

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

A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

Rogers, Adrian

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

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

Pope, Alexander

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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 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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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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Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

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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 a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Fromm, Erich

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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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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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

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

Bernard, St.

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

Bronte, Emily

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

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To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

Einstein, Albert