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

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

William Hazlitt

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

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

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Ward, C. M.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Stott, John R.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

10.

If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. [Mark 9:23]

Bible

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

12.

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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We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of GodÆs existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

Real Live Preacher

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

Jones, Rufus M.

16.

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

Proverb, Indian

17.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Augustine, St.

18.

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Bakker, Jim

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

21.

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

Bible

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

Cooley, Mason

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Russell, Thomas

31.

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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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Wooden, John

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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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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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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, 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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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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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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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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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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 course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

George E. Woodberry

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

Fromm, Erich