Motivational Quotes

Faith

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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Best Quotes about Faith

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Augustine, St.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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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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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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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

William Hazlitt

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

Ward, C. M.

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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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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

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Russell, Thomas

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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

Proverb, Indian

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

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Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.

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At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

Lucado, Max L.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Trueblood, Elton

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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 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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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann