Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

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

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.

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To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

Einstein, Albert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Luther, Martin

Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Fromm, Erich

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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.

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

Donne, John

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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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Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

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And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. [Hebrews 11:6]

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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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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Pascal, Blaise

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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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 not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Russell, Thomas

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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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Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Beaumont, Francis

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

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If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

George E. Woodberry

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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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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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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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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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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 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.