Motivational Quotes

Faith

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Beaumont, Francis

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

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

Bible

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Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

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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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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

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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 course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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.

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Cooley, Mason

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

James, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Harrington, Bob

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

Bronte, Emily

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

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

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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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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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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Chambers, Oswald