Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Bible

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

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

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Tocqueville, Alexis De

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

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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 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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Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Cooley, Mason

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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 makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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.

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

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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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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.

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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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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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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

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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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Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

Webster, Daniel

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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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 something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

James, William

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

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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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