Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is a continuation of reason.

- Adams, William

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Fromm, Erich

What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Shakti Gawain

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

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Barton, Bruce

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.

Loren, Sophia

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it canÆt be taken on its own merits.

Dan Barker

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Young

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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

William Hazlitt

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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.

Miller, Henry

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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

James, William

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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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Stott, John R.

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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.

Luther, Martin

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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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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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Benedict, Ruth

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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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.

Beaumont, Francis

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

Edwards, Tryon

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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.