Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Donne, John

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

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

Bible

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

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

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

10.

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

11.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Haggai, John

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

Bible

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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Benedict, Ruth

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Rogers, Adrian

28.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

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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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

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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.

34.

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

Bible

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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Weil, Simone

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Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

39.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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

James, William

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Bronte, Emily

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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