Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Bible

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

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

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

Young

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.

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

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

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

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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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

11.

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

12.

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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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

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

Cooley, Mason

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

Donne, John

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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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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

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

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Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

28.

The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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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At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

Lucado, Max L.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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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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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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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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 that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar