Motivational Quotes

Faith

Reason is the enemy of faith.

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Faith

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

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

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

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

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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, 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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

William Hazlitt

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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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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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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, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Luther, Martin

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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 is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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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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 love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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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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'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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

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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Buck, Pearl S.