Motivational Quotes

Faith

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

- Stella Terrill Mann

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Rogers, Adrian

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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.

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

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

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

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

Harrington, Bob

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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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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Donne, John

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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 love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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

Bronte, Emily

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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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What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Shakti Gawain

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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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

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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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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 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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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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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

Joyce, James

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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