Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Bronte, Emily

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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

Donne, John

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

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

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

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

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

Russell, Thomas

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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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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 trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

James, William

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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 the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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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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No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

Ward, C. M.

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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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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]

Gardner, Ava

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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 the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Moody, Dwight L.