Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

Best Quotes about Faith

All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Augustine, St.

Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

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

Bible

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

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

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

A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Harrington, Bob

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

Luther, Martin

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

Cooley, Mason

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To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

Einstein, Albert

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

Young

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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

William Hazlitt

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

James, William

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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

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And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher

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

Bible

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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 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

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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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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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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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 makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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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

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

Ward, C. M.

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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

Bronte, Emily

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