Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Faith

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Carlyle, Thomas

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

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

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.

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.

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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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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]

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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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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

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Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.

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

James, William

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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.

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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 means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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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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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 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]

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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 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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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

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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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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.