Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Harrington, Bob

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

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

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

Proverb, Indian

Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

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

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

Bible

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

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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 I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Shakti Gawain

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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 must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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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

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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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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 a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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 the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

James, William

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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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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hightower, Cullen

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

James, William

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young

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Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]

Gardner, Ava

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

Bible

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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.