Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Augustine, St.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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.

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

Proverb, Indian

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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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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Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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

Russell, Thomas

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

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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 the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Trueblood, Elton

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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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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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 builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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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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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren