Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Niebuhr, Reinhold

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Bible

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

Benedict, Ruth

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Harrington, Bob

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

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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

Joyce, James

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Luther, Martin

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Young

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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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 deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Trueblood, Elton

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Ward, C. M.

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Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Curtis, Donald

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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

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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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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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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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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

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.

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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Miller, Henry