Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is the refusal to panic.

- Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

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.

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

Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

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

Stanislaw Lem

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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Bible

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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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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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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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.

Real Live Preacher

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

James, William

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

Bible

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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

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

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It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Bronte, Emily

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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Pascal, Blaise

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Hazlitt

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.

Salter, William

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Chambers, Oswald