Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually is just a slow leak.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Russell, 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

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

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

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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]

Bible

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

James, William

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

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

Stanislaw Lem

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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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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 not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Donne, John

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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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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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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Cooley, Mason

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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.

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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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'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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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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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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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