Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is a continuation of reason.

- Adams, William

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Augustine, St.

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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

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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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When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

Teller, Edward

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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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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

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

William Hazlitt

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

Harrington, Bob

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20]

Bible

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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 refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Proverb, Indian

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Greene, Graham

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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