Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about Faith

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.

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

Ward, C. M.

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.

Russell, Thomas

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

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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 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

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Cooley, Mason

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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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All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Barton, Bruce

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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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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Weil, Simone

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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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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Moody, Dwight L.

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

William Hazlitt

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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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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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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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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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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 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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When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

Teller, Edward

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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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Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. [Peter 3:15]

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

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