Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Donne, John

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

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

William Shakespeare

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Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

James, William

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

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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'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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

Proverb, Indian

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Luther, Martin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. [Hebrews 11:6]

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

James, William

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Hightower, Cullen

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster