Motivational Quotes

Faith

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

- Thackeray, William M.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Hightower, Cullen

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Luther, Martin

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Greene, Graham

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 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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As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

Donne, John

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

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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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'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Harrington, Bob

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

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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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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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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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Stanislaw Lem

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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Trueblood, Elton

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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