Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

- Bailey, Henry Christopher

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

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

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

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

James, William

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Mueller, George E.

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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

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

Cooley, Mason

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

James, William

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

Young

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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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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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Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

Donne, John

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

William Shakespeare

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It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Haggai, John

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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 love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

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

Luther, Martin

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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Sand, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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