Motivational Quotes

Faith

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

- Thackeray, William M.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Pope, Alexander

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

Bronte, Emily

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

Donne, John

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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 the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Luther, Martin

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Cooley, Mason

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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 not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Thomas

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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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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.