Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

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

Luther, Martin

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 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

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

Donne, John

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Bible

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

Bible

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Augustine, St.

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

Cooley, Mason

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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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 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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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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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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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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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Luther, Martin

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

Russell, Thomas

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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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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]

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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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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 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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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

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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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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Shakti Gawain

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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Wooden, John

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

Donne, John