Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Faith

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Harrington, Bob

I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Luther, Martin

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

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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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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher

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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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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Donne, John

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

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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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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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

Bible

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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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It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Luther, Martin

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Russell, Thomas

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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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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, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

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'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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God, I donÆt have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher

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

Proverb, Indian

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Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.