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

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

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.

Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

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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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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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 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.

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

Stott, John R.

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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

James, William

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

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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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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

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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 building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

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

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

William Hazlitt

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

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Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

James, William

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

Henry S. Haskins

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

Cooley, Mason