Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Ward, C. M.

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

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

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

James, William

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

William Hazlitt

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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 love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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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 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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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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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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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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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.

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Auden, W. H.

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

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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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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 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

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

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In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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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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