Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Faith

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Dillard, Annie

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

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

Bible

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

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

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

James, William

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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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

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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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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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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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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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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

William Shakespeare

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Bible

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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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 means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually is just a slow leak.

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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

William Hazlitt

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Donne, John