Motivational Quotes

Faith

Non-violence is the article of faith.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Faith

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.

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Bible

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.

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

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

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

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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 builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Cooley, Mason

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

Forster, Edward M.

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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 that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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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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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As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

Donne, John

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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's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Bronte, Emily

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Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Greene, Graham

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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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

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

James, William

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

William Hazlitt

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

Bible

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

Donne, John