Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Bible

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

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Benedict, Ruth

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

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

William Hazlitt

The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher

'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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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.

11.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Donne, John

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bible

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

Luther, Martin

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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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 means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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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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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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Curtis, Donald

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Hlavaty, Vaclav