Motivational Quotes

Faith

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]

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Best Quotes about Faith

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

Luther, Martin

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.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Luther, Martin

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

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

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

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher

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

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Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

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

Trueblood, Elton

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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

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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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]

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Chambers, Oswald

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And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. [Hebrews 11:6]

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Hightower, Cullen

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

William Shakespeare

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