Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Harrington, Bob

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

James, William

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

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

Pope, Alexander

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

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'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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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... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

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

Cooley, Mason

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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 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

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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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The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Barton, Bruce

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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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Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. [Peter 3:15]

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Bronte, Emily

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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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

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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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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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.