Motivational Quotes

Faith

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

- Niebuhr, Reinhold

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Donne, John

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Augustine, St.

The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Weil, Simone

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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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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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 means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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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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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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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 higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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

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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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Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Luther, Martin

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Lewis, C. S.

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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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.