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

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

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.

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. [Hebrews 11:6]

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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 love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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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 not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

William Shakespeare

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

Stanislaw Lem

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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

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Mueller, George E.

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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 farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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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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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Luther, Martin