Motivational Quotes

Faith

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

- Haggai, John

Best Quotes about Faith

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

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.

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.

At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

Lucado, Max L.

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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.

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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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 can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cooley, Mason

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

William Hazlitt

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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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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Sand, George

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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 the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

William Shakespeare

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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Harrington, Bob

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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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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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 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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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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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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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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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Augustine, St.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma