Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Faith

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

Henry S. Haskins

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

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.

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Luther, Martin

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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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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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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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 means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.

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

Benedict, Ruth

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

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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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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 is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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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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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

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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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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Stanislaw Lem

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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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In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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

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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

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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