Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Augustine, St.

No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

Ward, C. M.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Chambers, Oswald

God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

William Hazlitt

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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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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Cooley, Mason

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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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As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

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 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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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 not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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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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In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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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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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Bible

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

James, William

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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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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

More, Hannah

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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 the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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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

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

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

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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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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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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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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