Motivational Quotes

Faith

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.

Best Quotes about Faith

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.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Rogers, Adrian

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Benedict, Ruth

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Thackeray, William M.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

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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 the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Russell, Thomas

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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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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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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Mueller, George E.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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]

Bible

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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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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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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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Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Bible

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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]

Bible

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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Edwards, Tryon

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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

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

Donne, John