Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Lewis, C. S.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Augustine, St.

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

Stanislaw Lem

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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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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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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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Weil, Simone

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

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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 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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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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The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher

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

Thackeray, William M.

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bronte, Emily

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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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 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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There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

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

Ward, C. M.

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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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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Proverb, Indian