Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Trueblood, Elton

Best Quotes about Faith

No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

Ward, C. M.

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

Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Lewis, C. S.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

Forster, Edward M.

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

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

Young

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Cooley, Mason

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

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

Lucado, Max L.

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Russell, Thomas

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

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Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Curtis, Donald

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

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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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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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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, 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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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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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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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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]

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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Dillard, Annie

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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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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Miller, Henry

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

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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.