Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Cooley, Mason

Best Quotes about Faith

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 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 is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Indian

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Sand, George

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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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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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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

Forster, Edward M.

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

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

Donne, John

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Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Russell, Thomas

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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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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Jones, Rufus 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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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

William Shakespeare

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Cooley, Mason

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All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

James, William

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And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. [Hebrews 11:6]

Bible

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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