Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary

Nerys, Major Kira

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.

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.

Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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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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.

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

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

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20]

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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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

Joyce, James

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

Luther, Martin

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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

James, William

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

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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

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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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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

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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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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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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

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

Proverb, Indian

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