Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Haggai, John

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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Bible

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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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Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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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 is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Jones, Rufus M.

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Stanislaw Lem

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God, I donÆt have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Donne, John

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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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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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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Edwards, Tryon