Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

- Parkhurst, Charles H.

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.

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

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

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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.

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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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, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Donne, John

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

Stott, John R.

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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

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

Bible

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

Ward, C. M.

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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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.

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

Stanislaw Lem

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell