Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Faith

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

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

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

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

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of GodÆs existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

Real Live Preacher

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

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Bible

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

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Young

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Bible

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Augustine, St.

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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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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

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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