Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.

Russell, Thomas

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Jones, Rufus M.

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.

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

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

Forster, Edward M.

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All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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

Proverb, Indian

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Cooley, Mason

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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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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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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Luther, Martin

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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20]

Bible

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

Luther, Martin

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And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher

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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

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

James, William

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

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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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We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of GodÆs existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

Real Live Preacher

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Young

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Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

William Shakespeare

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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 certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Gandhi, Mahatma