Motivational Quotes

Faith

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Faith

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

James, William

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

Augustine, St.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Dillard, Annie

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

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

Russell, Thomas

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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

Joyce, James

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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Newman, Cardinal J.

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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All things are possible to him who believes. [Mark 9:23]

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Tozer, A. W.

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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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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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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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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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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As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.

Salter, William

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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.