Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Luther, Martin

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

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Barton, Bruce

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Pope, Alexander

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

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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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Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

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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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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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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Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Ward, C. M.

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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 that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Augustine, St.

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

Bible

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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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'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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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 builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

William Shakespeare