Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

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Best Quotes about Faith

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

James, William

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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.

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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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Augustine, St.

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

James, William

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Cooley, Mason

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

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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 a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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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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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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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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 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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As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

Donne, John

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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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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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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

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

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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 a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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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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Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.

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

William Hazlitt

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bronte, Emily

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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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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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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

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

Luther, Martin

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

Ward, C. M.

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Bardot, Brigitte