Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Benedict, Ruth

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

Henry S. Haskins

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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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]

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

Rogers, Adrian

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

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In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

Gurdjieff, George

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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 means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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

William Hazlitt

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Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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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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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

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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

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

Trueblood, Elton

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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Auden, W. H.

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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.