Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher

Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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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 different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Miller, Henry

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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

Joyce, James

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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]

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Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

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

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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Cooley, Mason

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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]

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