Faith Quotes - Page 16

• I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.

  Andrew Schneider

  Atheist, Thinking

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• Youth without faith is a day without sun.

  Ouida

  Sun, Youth

  Ouida (1875). “Chandos: A Novel”, p.558

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• Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Men, Thinking, Choices

  Thomas Moore, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1826). “Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: In Two Volumes”, p.152

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• Ye children of promise who are awaiting your call to glory, take possession of the inheritance that now is yours. By faith take the promises. Live upon them, not upon emotions. Remember, feeling is not faith. Faith grasps and clings to the promises. Faith says, "I am certain, not because feeling testifies to it, but because God says it.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Children, Feelings, Promise

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• The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dollars, Deaf, Sentiments

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.245

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• It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Sports, Confidence

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2017

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• There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Bad Ass, Worry

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.277, Vintage

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• Non-violence is the article of faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Violence, Articles

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• When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

  Ernest Holmes

  Prayer, Doubt, Fields

  Ernest Holmes (2010). “Living Without Fear”, p.24, Penguin

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• God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

  Ayn Rand

  Witty, Religious, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.335, Penguin

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• Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

  Emily Dickinson

  Knowledge, Science, Gentleman

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.185 (first published 1891).

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• I claim to be no more than the average person with 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.198, Courier Corporation

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• I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.

  Robert Browning

  Doubt, Shows, Prove

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.192, Pearson Education

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• Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Emotional, Slavery, Conscious

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

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Dying, Difficult, Hard

  The History of Henry Esmond bk. 1, ch. 6 (1852)

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• To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Powerful, Father Son, Skills

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• A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear

  George MacDonald

  Christian, Fear, Perfect

  George MacDonald (2015). “SIR GIBBIE & DONAL GRANT: The Baronet’s Song and The Shepherd’s Castle (Adventure Classic)”, p.215, e-artnow

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• Faith is the subtle chain which binds us to the infinite; the voice of a deep life within, that will remain until we crowd it thence.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Voice, Deep Life, Crowds

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• Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Spiritual, Religious

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.106, Discovery House

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• Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something. Only faith is sufficient.

  Robert Ley

  Sufficient

  "Fate — I believe!". Speech on November 03, 1936. "Wir alle helfen dem Führer". Book by Robert Ley, pp. 103-114, research.calvin.edu. 1937.

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• Life is too short to be anything but real with the cast of characters God has placed in the story of your life. Love well, laugh often, and find your life in Christ. Don't hide away or be a follower. Be the wonderful unique person God made you to be, and know that your purpose will always be best when defined by your faith in him

  Karen Kingsbury

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Religious, Hero

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• Times change. God doesn’t, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.

  Rob Bell

  Change, God, Christian

  FaceBook post by Rob Bell from Jul 15, 2012

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• Don’t be sad by what you see
  It’s true life has it’s miseries
  But one thing’s always worked for me
  Worry ends when faith begins.

  Sami Yusuf

  Inspirational, Life, Sad

  Song: Worry Ends

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• Keep your life in its constant contact with God that his surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left.  Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as he likes.

  Oswald Chambers

  Life, God, Christian

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

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