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

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Ward, C. M.

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

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

James, William

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

Webster, Daniel

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Luther, Martin

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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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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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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

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

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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 trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.