Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

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Best Quotes about Faith

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Bible

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

Donne, John

A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Harrington, Bob

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

Russell, Thomas

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

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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, 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 makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Jones, Rufus M.

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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

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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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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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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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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Auden, W. H.

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

Joyce, James

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

Young

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

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

Bernanos, Georges