Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Newman, Cardinal J.

Best Quotes about Faith

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

George E. Woodberry

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

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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

A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

Rogers, Adrian

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.

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

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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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As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

Teller, Edward

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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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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]

Bible

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Bronte, Emily

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There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

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

Trueblood, Elton

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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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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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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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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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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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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Young

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Russell, Thomas

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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.