Motivational Quotes

Faith

The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

- Hlavaty, Vaclav

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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 not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Edwards, Tryon

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Young

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Bible

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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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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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That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary

Nerys, Major Kira

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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 not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Auden, W. H.

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

Luther, Martin

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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.

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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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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

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

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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.

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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 is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

James, William

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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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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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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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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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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