Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

William Hazlitt

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

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Bible

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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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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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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

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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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

Henry S. Haskins

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

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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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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 trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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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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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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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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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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel