Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Harrington, Bob

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Young

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Sand, George

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

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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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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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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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God, I donÆt have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher

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

Luther, Martin

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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Benedict, Ruth

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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]

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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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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It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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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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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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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 is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Luther, Martin

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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 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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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

William Shakespeare

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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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Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

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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

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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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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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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 refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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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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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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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

Cooley, Mason