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

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Bernard, St.

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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

Bronte, Emily

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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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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A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

Proverb, Indian

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

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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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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

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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

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Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

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

William Shakespeare

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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 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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Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

Webster, Daniel

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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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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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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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

Spalding, John Lancaster

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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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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'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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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Thoreau, Henry David