Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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.

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

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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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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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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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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

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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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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]

Bible

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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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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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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Bible

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

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

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

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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

More, Hannah

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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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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

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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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Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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.

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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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All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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