Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Faith

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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 art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Haggai, John

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Bible

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

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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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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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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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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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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Butler, Samuel

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No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

Ward, C. M.

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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

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Russell, Thomas

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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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 means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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

William Shakespeare

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Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell