Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

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

Stott, John R.

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.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

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

Hightower, Cullen

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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Miller, Henry

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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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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Chambers, Oswald

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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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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.

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Greene, Graham

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

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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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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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Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Beaumont, Francis

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Young

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Luther, Martin

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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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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]