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

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Mueller, George E.

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Luther, Martin

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

Augustine, St.

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

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

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Donne, John

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually is just a slow leak.

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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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'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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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 art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

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Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.

Wesley, John

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

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 is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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

William Hazlitt

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

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

James, William

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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

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Shakti Gawain

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Ruskin, John

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

Russell, Thomas

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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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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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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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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.