Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Shoemaker, Samuel M.

Best Quotes about Faith

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Thackeray, William M.

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Bible

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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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Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

Webster, Daniel

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Trueblood, Elton

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Luther, Martin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Luther, Martin

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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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The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Mueller, George E.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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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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