Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Chambers, Oswald

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Augustine, St.

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

William Hazlitt

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

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

As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

Donne, John

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

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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

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

Harrington, Bob

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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

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

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Stanislaw Lem

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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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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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Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Russell, Thomas

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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

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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 you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

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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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The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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 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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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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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

Gurdjieff, George

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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]

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

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