Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Shoemaker, Samuel M.

Best Quotes about Faith

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hlavaty, Vaclav

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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

All things are possible to him who believes. [Mark 9:23]

Bible

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

12.

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

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It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

Evarts, William M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Bible

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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

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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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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 course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

James, William

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bernard, St.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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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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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius