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

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

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

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

William Hazlitt

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

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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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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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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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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

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

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Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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All things are possible to him who believes. [Mark 9:23]

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Ward, C. M.

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher

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

Rogers, Adrian

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Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Luther, Martin

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All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel