Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

James, William

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.

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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.

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

Bible

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. [Hebrews 11:6]

Bible

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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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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Sand, George

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

Bronte, Emily

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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]

Bible

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

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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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Haggai, John

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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

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

William Hazlitt

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

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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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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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Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

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

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All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo