Motivational Quotes

Faith

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Faith

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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.

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Mueller, George E.

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

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

Stott, John R.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Luther, Martin

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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 builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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

William Hazlitt

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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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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. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Ward, C. M.

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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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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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Bible

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

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

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

Harrington, Bob

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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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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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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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 course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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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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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 heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques