Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Rogers, Adrian

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

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

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]

Bible

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Buck, Pearl S.

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]

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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Russell, Thomas

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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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 a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Bardot, Brigitte

26.

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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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 not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

Proverb, Indian

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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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When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

Teller, Edward

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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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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 is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Ruskin, John