Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bronte, Emily

As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

William Hazlitt

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

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

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Fromm, Erich

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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 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

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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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, 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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And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher

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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 faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Russell, Thomas

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

Holliwell, Raymond

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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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