Motivational Quotes

Faith

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Faith

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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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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All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

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

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

Trueblood, Elton

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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]

Bible

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Curtis, Donald

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Harrington, Bob

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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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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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

Young

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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 is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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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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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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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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Dillard, Annie

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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 better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

James, William

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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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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 heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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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