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

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

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

Stott, John R.

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

Stanislaw Lem

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

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]

Bible

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Russell, Thomas

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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 without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Young

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Cooley, Mason

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

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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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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

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

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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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You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Bakker, Jim

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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 is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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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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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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.

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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.