Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

William Hazlitt

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

Luther, Martin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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

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

Cooley, Mason

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 the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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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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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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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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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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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

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Harrington, Bob

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Luther, Martin

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All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Bible

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

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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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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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Stanislaw Lem

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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 to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.