Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Acquinas, Saint Thomas

Best Quotes about Faith

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

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

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.

Clarke, James Freeman

Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Curtis, Donald

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Young

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Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

James, William

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All things are possible to him who believes. [Mark 9:23]

Bible

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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

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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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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

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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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And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher

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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 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.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Trueblood, Elton

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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.

Bakker, Jim

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Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Benedict, Ruth

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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

William Shakespeare

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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.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Harrington, Bob

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

Bible

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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 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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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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