Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Mueller, George E.

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

Donne, John

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

Lucado, Max L.

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

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

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

Bernard, St.

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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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

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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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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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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

Spalding, John Lancaster

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Rogers, Adrian

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Bakker, Jim

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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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 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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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]

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20]

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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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'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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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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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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Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Acquinas, Saint Thomas