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

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

It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Bible

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

Hightower, Cullen

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

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Mueller, George E.

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

Bernard, St.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

10.

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

11.

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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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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Luther, Martin

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

Moody, Dwight L.

24.

If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. [Mark 9:23]

Bible

25.

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

Bible

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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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 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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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

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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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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Wooden, John

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

40.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Thoreau, Henry David

41.

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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

43.

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

James, William

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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 is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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

49.

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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar