Motivational Quotes

Faith

That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary

- Nerys, Major Kira

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Donne, John

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

Trueblood, Elton

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Thackeray, William M.

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

James, William

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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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.

11.

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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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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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Russell, Thomas

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Harrington, Bob

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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

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

Bible

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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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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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God, I donÆt have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher

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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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

Ward, C. M.

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

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

Haggai, John

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