Motivational Quotes

Faith

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.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Bible

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

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

Bible

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Wooden, John

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

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

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

10.

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

11.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

15.

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Benedict, Ruth

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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Miller, Henry

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

Pascal, Blaise

19.

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

20.

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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

23.

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Cooley, Mason

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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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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

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As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.

Salter, William

30.

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

31.

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

32.

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

William Hazlitt

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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God, I donÆt have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher

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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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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

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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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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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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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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Thackeray, William M.

49.

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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