Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Proverb, Indian

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Bronte, Emily

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

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

James, William

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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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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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 is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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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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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

William Shakespeare

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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Cooley, Mason

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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Young

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

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God, I donÆt have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher

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

Benedict, Ruth

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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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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

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