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

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

Joyce, James

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

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

Bronte, Emily

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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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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, 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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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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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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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

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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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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Luther, Martin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

Evarts, William M.

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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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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Young

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Bible

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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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