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 trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

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.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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'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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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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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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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

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

William Hazlitt

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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

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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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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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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 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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Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

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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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Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Curtis, Donald

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As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

Donne, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bronte, Emily

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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.

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As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.

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Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

Donne, John

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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 faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo