Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Jones, Rufus M.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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Wesley, John

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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 think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of GodÆs existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

Real Live Preacher

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Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bible

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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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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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.