Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

James, William

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

William Shakespeare

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

Russell, Thomas

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.

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Bronte, Emily

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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

Ward, C. M.

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

Stott, John R.

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Young

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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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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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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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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Luther, Martin

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Barton, Bruce

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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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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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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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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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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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 faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

More, Hannah

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 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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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 is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

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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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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Buck, Pearl S.