Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Harrington, Bob

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

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.

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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

Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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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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A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

Proverb, Indian

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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Bible

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

Ward, C. M.

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

James, William

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

Butterworth, Eric

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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 a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bible

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

James, William

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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 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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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Rogers, Adrian

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Spalding, John Lancaster