Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is a continuation of reason.

- Adams, William

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rogers, Adrian

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. [Mark 9:23]

Bible

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

James, William

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

William Hazlitt

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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.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bernanos, Georges

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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Weil, Simone

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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

Pascal, Blaise

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

Butterworth, Eric

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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God, I donÆt have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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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

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

Bible

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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

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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Cooley, Mason

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually is just a slow leak.

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

Lewis, C. S.