Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

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

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

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

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Trueblood, Elton

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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Augustine, St.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Donne, John

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. [Peter 3:15]

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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

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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 is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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

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Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb