Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Fuller, R. Buckminster

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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

William Shakespeare

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

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Luther, Martin

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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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A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Harrington, Bob

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

Donne, John

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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Hightower, Cullen

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

James, William

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

Haggai, John

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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.

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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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You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Bakker, Jim

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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

Russell, Thomas

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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 an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Sand, George

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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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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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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Bible

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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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In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

Gurdjieff, George

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A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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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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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.