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

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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.

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

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ward, C. M.

10.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

11.

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

12.

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

13.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

14.

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

Bible

15.

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.

16.

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

17.

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

Augustine, St.

18.

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

19.

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

20.

Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.

21.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

23.

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

24.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Moody, Dwight L.

25.

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

Fromm, Erich

26.

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

27.

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

Bernard, St.

28.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

29.

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

Harrington, Bob

30.

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

31.

As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.

Salter, William

32.

All things are possible to him who believes. [Mark 9:23]

Bible

33.

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

34.

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

35.

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

40.

Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.