Motivational Quotes

Faith

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Faith

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.

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

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

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

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

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

Haggai, John

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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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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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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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Miller, Henry

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

William Hazlitt

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

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

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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. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Cooley, Mason

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

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When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

Teller, Edward

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

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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

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

Young

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

Donne, John

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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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And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher

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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

James, William

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Benedict, Ruth

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

Evarts, William M.

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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