Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Jones, Rufus M.

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Augustine, St.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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]

Bible

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Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Donne, 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]

Bible

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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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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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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 better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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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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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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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

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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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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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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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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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 belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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

William Shakespeare