Motivational Quotes

Faith

Reason is the enemy of faith.

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Trueblood, Elton

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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

Harrington, Bob

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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 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 is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Dillard, Annie

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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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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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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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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If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. [Mark 9:23]

Bible

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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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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Bronte, Emily

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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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 builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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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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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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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel