Motivational Quotes

Faith

As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Faith

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Mueller, George E.

Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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 the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

James, William

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

Trueblood, Elton

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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Donne, John

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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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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Auden, W. H.

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

William Hazlitt

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

Rogers, Adrian

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Luther, Martin

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Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

Henry S. Haskins

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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 is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Newman, Cardinal J.