Motivational Quotes

Faith

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Faith

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

James, William

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

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

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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

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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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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Bible

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

Luther, Martin

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

Donne, John

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If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

George E. Woodberry

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Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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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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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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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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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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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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

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A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Harrington, Bob

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Young

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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

Webster, Daniel

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

Bible

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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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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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Non-violence is the article of faith.