Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Haggai, John

Best Quotes about Faith

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

James, William

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

Ward, C. M.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Thoreau, Henry David

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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.

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

Cooley, Mason

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

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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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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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Haggai, John

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

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

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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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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.

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

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

Mueller, George E.

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Benedict, Ruth

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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

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Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. [Peter 3:15]

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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