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

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Donne, John

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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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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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Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]

Gardner, Ava

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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

George E. Woodberry

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Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

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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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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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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

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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 higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young

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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.