Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bronte, Emily

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

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

Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Pope, Alexander

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Bible

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

Butterworth, Eric

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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

James, William

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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

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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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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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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 not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Curtis, Donald

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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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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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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

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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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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 is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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All things are possible to him who believes. [Mark 9:23]

Bible

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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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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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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]

Bible

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

Donne, John

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Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

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