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

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

Trueblood, Elton

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Thackeray, William M.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Young

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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.

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

William Shakespeare

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 is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

11.

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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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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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.

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

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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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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Edwards, Tryon

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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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.

25.

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

Harrington, Bob

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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

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

William Hazlitt

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

Luther, Martin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Miller, Henry

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

James, William

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

39.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

James, William

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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Hightower, Cullen

46.

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

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47.

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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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Stanislaw Lem