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

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

Bible

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

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

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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.

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

Augustine, St.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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

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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 is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Benedict, Ruth

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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Weil, Simone

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

Bible

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

Harrington, Bob

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

Proverb, Indian

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

Russell, Thomas

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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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'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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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]

Bible

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fromm, Erich

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

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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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

Young

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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 means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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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

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

William Hazlitt

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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

Joyce, James