Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is the refusal to panic.

- Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

Best Quotes about Faith

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Mueller, George E.

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

Young

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]

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We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually is just a slow leak.

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

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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, 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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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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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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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Trueblood, Elton

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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 love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Benedict, Ruth

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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 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 is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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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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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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The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.

Russell, Thomas

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