Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Stott, John R.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

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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.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Bible

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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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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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 the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Trueblood, Elton

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Russell, Thomas

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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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

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

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

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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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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Young

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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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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Proverb, Indian

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

James, William

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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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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.

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