Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is not contrary to reason

- Eddy, Sherwood

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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]

Bible

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

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

Ward, C. M.

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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 the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

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

Cooley, Mason

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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 is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Stanislaw Lem

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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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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, Indian

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What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Shakti Gawain

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Wooden, John

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

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Beaumont, Francis

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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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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.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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All things are possible to him who believes. [Mark 9:23]

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

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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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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

Bronte, Emily

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

James, William

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Mueller, George E.