Motivational Quotes

Faith

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.

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher

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

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

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.

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

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Haggai, John

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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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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Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. [Peter 3:15]

Bible

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. [Hebrews 11:6]

Bible

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Hazlitt

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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

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

Hightower, Cullen

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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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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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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 makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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 not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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