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

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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.

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

William Hazlitt

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Augustine, St.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Moody, Dwight L.

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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Rogers, Adrian

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Wooden, John

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

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Stott, John R.

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

James, William

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