Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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.

Real Live Preacher

If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. [Mark 9:23]

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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.

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Barton, Bruce

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Luther, Martin

The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Greene, Graham

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

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

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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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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 trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary

Nerys, Major Kira

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

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

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

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

Cooley, Mason

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

William Shakespeare

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

James, William

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

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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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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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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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All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Hazlitt

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Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shoemaker, Samuel 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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Donne, John

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

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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.