Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Haggai, John

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Bible

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Benedict, Ruth

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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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You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Bakker, Jim

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

James, William

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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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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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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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 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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As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

Donne, John

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

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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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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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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 builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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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]

Bible

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

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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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The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

32.

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]

Bible

33.

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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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 faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

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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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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bible

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

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

Ward, C. M.

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Donne, John