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

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

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

James, William

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

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Stott, John R.

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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.

Real Live Preacher

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

Trueblood, Elton

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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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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 we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

Henry S. Haskins

24.

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

James, William

26.

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

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Donne, John

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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

32.

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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

35.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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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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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, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Stanislaw Lem

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Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. [Peter 3:15]

Bible

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

Luther, Martin

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

Russell, Thomas

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

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