Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Faith

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

James, William

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

Trueblood, Elton

Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Jones, Rufus M.

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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 our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.

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

Stanislaw Lem

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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 contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Donne, John

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To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

Einstein, Albert

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

William Shakespeare

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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 a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Luther, Martin

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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's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Luther, Martin

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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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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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Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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God, I donÆt have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Donne, John

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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Weil, Simone

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

Hightower, Cullen

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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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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord