Motivational Quotes

Faith

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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Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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 trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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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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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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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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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 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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Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

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

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

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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

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

William Hazlitt

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

Benedict, Ruth

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes