Motivational Quotes

Faith

What we wish, that we readily believe.

- Demosthenes

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Ward, C. M.

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

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

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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

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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

James, William

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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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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 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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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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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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 is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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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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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Augustine, St.

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Bakker, Jim

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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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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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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

Cooley, Mason

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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 heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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 not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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 is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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