Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Young

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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.

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

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

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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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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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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 was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Luther, Martin

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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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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.

Russell, Thomas

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of GodÆs existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

Real Live Preacher

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

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

William Shakespeare

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At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

Lucado, Max L.

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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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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 makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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

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

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

William Hazlitt

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

Stott, John R.