Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Willmott, Robert Eldridge

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Bible

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

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Donne, John

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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]

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

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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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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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

Bronte, Emily

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Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

Henry S. Haskins

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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.

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

James, William

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Benedict, Ruth

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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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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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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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Beaumont, Francis

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

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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

More, Hannah

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Young

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann