Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Bernanos, Georges

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Benedict, Ruth

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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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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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You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Bakker, Jim

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Stanislaw Lem

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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 means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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

Bronte, Emily

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And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. [Hebrews 11:6]

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

James, William

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

Thackeray, William M.

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That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary

Nerys, Major Kira

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Harrington, Bob

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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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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 is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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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

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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar