Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Rogers, Adrian

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

William Hazlitt

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

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Bible

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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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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

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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, 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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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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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 does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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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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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Indian

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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 is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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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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 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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

James, William

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