Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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.

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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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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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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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The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.

Russell, Thomas

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

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

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

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

James, William

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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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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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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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Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

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

Young

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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 does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.

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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Cooley, Mason

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

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Luther, Martin

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

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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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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

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Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it canÆt be taken on its own merits.

Dan Barker

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In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

Gurdjieff, George