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

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

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.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

James, William

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Luther, Martin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Haggai, John

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Auden, W. H.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

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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 love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Hightower, Cullen

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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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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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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 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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Moody, Dwight L.

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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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

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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 is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Ward, C. M.

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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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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes