Motivational Quotes

Faith

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Faith

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

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

Luther, Martin

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.

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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.

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Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

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

William Hazlitt

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

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

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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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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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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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

Ward, C. M.

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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

William Shakespeare

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

James, William

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

Russell, Thomas

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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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Faith lives in honest doubt.