Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Faith

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

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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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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 not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

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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 means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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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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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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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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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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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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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.

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If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. [Mark 9:23]

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hightower, Cullen

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

Proverb, Indian

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

James, William

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

Rogers, Adrian

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Benedict, Ruth

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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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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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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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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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