Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Bible

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

Young

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Chambers, Oswald

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

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.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it canÆt be taken on its own merits.

Dan Barker

11.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

12.

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.

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Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

14.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

15.

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

16.

Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]

Gardner, Ava

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

Fromm, Erich

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Bronte, Emily

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Indian

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Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

George E. Woodberry

28.

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 universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher

30.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

32.

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

33.

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

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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Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

36.

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

37.

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Ward, C. M.

43.

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

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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

45.

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

46.

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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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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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Trueblood, Elton

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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