Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Buck, Pearl S.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

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

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

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Pope, Alexander

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That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary

Nerys, Major Kira

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

Cooley, Mason

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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 a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Barton, Bruce

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

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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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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

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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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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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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

James, William

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

Stott, John R.