Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Indian

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.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

George E. Woodberry

Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Bible

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As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.

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

Luther, Martin

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It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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 not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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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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Dillard, Annie

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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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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Greene, Graham

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

Augustine, St.

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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.

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Young

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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.

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.