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

As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

Donne, John

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Pascal, Blaise

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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.

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

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

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

Rogers, Adrian

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Auden, W. H.

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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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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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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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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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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

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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

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

James, William

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

William Shakespeare

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.

Wesley, John

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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

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

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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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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Luther, Martin

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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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