Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

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

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

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

James, William

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

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

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Luther, Martin

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The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Rogers, Adrian

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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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

William Hazlitt

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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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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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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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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Indian

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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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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Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]

Gardner, Ava

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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