Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Rogers, Adrian

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

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

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually is just a slow leak.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Russell, Thomas

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

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, 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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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 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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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Greene, Graham

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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

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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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

James, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.