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

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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 makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Donne, John

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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 the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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

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

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

Fromm, Erich

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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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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

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

William Shakespeare

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The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.

Russell, Thomas

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

Young

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

Bible

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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