Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Bardot, Brigitte

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Donne, John

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

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

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

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

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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: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.

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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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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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 love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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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 must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.

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As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.

Salter, William

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

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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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At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

Lucado, Max L.

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Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cooley, Mason

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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

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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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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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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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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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 builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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]

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Augustine, St.

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

Haggai, John

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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.