Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Bernanos, Georges

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Donne, John

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

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

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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

William Shakespeare

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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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No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

Ward, C. M.

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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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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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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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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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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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'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Thackeray, William M.

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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. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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 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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Young

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Donne, John

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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Rogers, Adrian

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Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

James, William

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

Benedict, Ruth

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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

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel