Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Billings, Josh

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

Russell, Thomas

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

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

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

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

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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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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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]

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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]

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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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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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]

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

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

James, William

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

William Hazlitt

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

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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.