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

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

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

Luther, Martin

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.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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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 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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

James, William

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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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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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Luther, Martin

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

Donne, John

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

Trueblood, Elton

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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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Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

Webster, Daniel

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Russell, Thomas

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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.

Billings, Josh

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

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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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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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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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Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

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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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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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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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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.

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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Cooley, Mason

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Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]

Gardner, Ava

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

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