Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

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.

Real Live Preacher

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

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

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

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

William Hazlitt

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

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

Donne, John

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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

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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 builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Luther, Martin

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Benedict, Ruth

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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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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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.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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]

Bible

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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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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

James, 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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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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All things are possible to him who believes. [Mark 9:23]

Bible

40.

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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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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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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