Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

- Bailey, Henry Christopher

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

William Hazlitt

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

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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 something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Cooley, Mason

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We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of GodÆs existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

Real Live Preacher

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Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. [Peter 3:15]

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. [Mark 9:23]

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

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