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

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Chambers, Oswald

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Luther, Martin

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.

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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

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

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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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

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

Young

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

Stott, John R.

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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.

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

William Hazlitt

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Benedict, Ruth

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

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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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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 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 love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Haggai, John

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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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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