Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Spalding, John Lancaster

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Luther, Martin

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

Ward, C. M.

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Butler, Samuel

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Luther, Martin

13.

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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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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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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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 the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

21.

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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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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As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

Donne, John

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Rogers, Adrian

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

28.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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

33.

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]

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

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

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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

44.

As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.

45.

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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