Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Russell, Thomas

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Young

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

William Hazlitt

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

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

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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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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Benedict, Ruth

13.

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

Proverb, Indian

14.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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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'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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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

William Shakespeare

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

Donne, John

19.

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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

22.

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

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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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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

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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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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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

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

Bible

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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.

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

40.

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

Stott, John R.

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

Bible

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No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

Ward, C. M.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Edwards, Tryon