Faith Quotes
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Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
Soren Kierkegaard
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We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.
Alfred Edersheim
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To trust God, as seen in the face of His Son, and to believe that He loves us, that is faith, that is what we must do to be saved. And to love God, as seen in the face of His Son, and to seek to testify our love by our whole life, — that is Christian duty; that is all we have to do.
Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
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Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.
Benjamin Carson
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Thus my faith grew that my beautiful dream for the future would become reality after all, even though this might require long years.
Adolf Hitler
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There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever.
Norman Vincent Peale
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I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.
Ernie Harwell
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What are you doing right now that requires faith?
Francis Chan
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Your children learn more of your faith during the bad times than they do during the good times.
Beverly LaHaye
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The Artist should not forget his mission, perhaps the most religious of all, of sustaining faith in the worthwhileness of art and thus of life.
Ernst Bacon
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Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.
Martin Luther
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One should never tie his faith to how old the earth is.
Norman Geisler
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I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.
Ernie Harwell
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The human race was in need of salvation because of the perversity of sin. For when people who are ill are cured from their illness, they are called "saved." Therefore, the Lord says: "Your faith has saved you.
Thomas Aquinas
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Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation .. .Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give salvation to a man whose will ... expels the form of faith.
Thomas Aquinas
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True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity
Francis Chan
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I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. We are a motley crew, distinguished not only by our inability to explain ourselves to those who are more certain of their beliefs than we are but in many cases by our distance from the centers of our faith communities as well.
Barbara Brown Taylor
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True faith goes into operation when there are no answers.
Elisabeth Elliot
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We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this Nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face.
Jimmy Carter
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When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the spirit of missionary work came into my life. I was about thirteen years of age when my father received a call to go on a mission.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I will not trust him to feed me? Yea, that a guilder, thirty-eight cents, should be valued more highly than God, who pours out his treasures everywhere in rich profusion. For the world is full of God and his works. He is everywhere present with his gifts, and yet we will not trust in him, nor accept his visitation.
Martin Luther
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
Hermann Hesse
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There are very serious reasons to doubt that Jesus was buried decently and that his tomb was discovered to be empty ... Faith is not historical knowledge, and historical knowledge is not faith.
Bart Ehrman