Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

Ward, C. M.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Augustine, St.

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

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

Jones, Rufus M.

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Haggai, John

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

William Hazlitt

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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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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The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher

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

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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

Nerys, Major Kira

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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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

Hightower, Cullen

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

Bronte, Emily

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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

Joyce, James

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

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Luther, Martin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of GodÆs existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

Real Live Preacher

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Russell, Thomas

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Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel