Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Donne, John

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

Luther, Martin

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Pascal, Blaise

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lubbock, Sir John

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Luther, Martin

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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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 is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

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Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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

Benedict, Ruth

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

William Hazlitt

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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 that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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

35.

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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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]

Bible

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

Bible

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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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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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

44.

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

James, William

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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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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