Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

James, William

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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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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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 love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Young

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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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Russell, Thomas

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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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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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

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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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A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Harrington, Bob

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Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. [Peter 3:15]

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

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