Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Faith

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Shakti Gawain

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Benedict, Ruth

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

Donne, John

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

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. [Peter 3:15]

Bible

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And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher

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

Ward, C. M.

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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

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Augustine, St.

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Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.

Wesley, John

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Bible

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A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

Rogers, Adrian

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

James, William

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

Luther, Martin

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Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Tozer, A. W.

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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

Donne, John

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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.