Inspirations

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

- Saint Thomas Acquinas

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?

- W H Auden

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

- St. Augustine

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

- Henry Christopher Bailey

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.

- Jim Bakker

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.

- Francis Beaumont

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

- Georges Bernanos

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

- St. Bernard

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

- Hebrews 11:1, Bible

If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

- Mark 9:23, Bible

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

- Hebrews 11:1, Bible

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

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, Bible

All things are possible to him who believes.

- Mark 9:23, Bible

According to your faith; be it done unto you.

- Bible

Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shall find it after many days.

- Bible

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

- Josh Billings

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

- Emily Bronte

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

- Samuel Butler

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

- Oswald Chambers

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.

- James Freeman Clarke

Faith is not contrary to reason�

- Sherwood Eddy

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.

- Tryon Edwards

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

- William M Evarts

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.

- Viktor E Frankl

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Erich Fromm

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

- R Buckminster Fuller

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Non-violence is the article of faith.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

- Kahlil Gibran

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

- John Haggai

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

- William Hazlitt

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

- Cullen Hightower

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

- Ralph Hodgson

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

- Rufus M Jones

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

- Soren Kierkegaard

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble.

- Rudyard Kipling

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

- C S Lewis

Faith is the refusal to panic.

- David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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.

- Vince Lombardi

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

- Sophia Loren

At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

- Max L Lucado

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

- Martin Luther

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.

- Martin Luther

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

- Martin Luther

Reason is the enemy of faith.

- Martin Luther

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

- Martin Luther

The principal part of faith is patience.

- George Macdonald

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.

- Henry Miller

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

- Dwight L Moody

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?

- Dwight L Moody

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.

- Hannah More

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

- George E Mueller

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

- Major Kira Nerys

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

- Charles H Parkhurst

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

- Blaise Pascal

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

- Blaise Pascal

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

- Blaise Pascal

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.

- Blaise Pascal

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

- Plato

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

- Proverb

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

- Indian proverb

A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

- Adrian Rogers

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

- Franklin D Roosevelt

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

- John Ruskin

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

- Thomas Russell

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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.

- William Salter

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

- Friedrich Schlegel

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

- Samuel M Shoemaker

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

- John Lancaster Spalding

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

- John R Stott

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

- Henry David Thoreau

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

- A W Tozer

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

- Elton Trueblood

Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

- Source Unknown

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

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

- Source Unknown

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.

- John Wesley

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

- Ellen Gould White

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

- John Greenleaf Whittier

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.

- John Wooden

Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

- Young

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Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

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?

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

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

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.

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.

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

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

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you.

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.

All things are possible to him who believes.

According to your faith; be it done unto you.

Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shall find it after many days.

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

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

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

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

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.

Faith is not contrary to reason�

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.

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

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.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

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.

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.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

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

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

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

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

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.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

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

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

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

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

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

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

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble.

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

Faith is the refusal to panic.

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.

At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

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

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.

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

Reason is the enemy of faith.

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

The principal part of faith is patience.

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.

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

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?

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.

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

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

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

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

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.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

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

A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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.

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

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