Motivational Quotes

Faith

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

- Thackeray, William M.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

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

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Donne, John

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

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

Bible

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Benedict, Ruth

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

James, William

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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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Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

Webster, Daniel

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

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

Luther, Martin

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

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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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood