Motivational Quotes

Faith

The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Faith

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.

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

There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Ward, C. M.

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

William Hazlitt

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

More, Hannah

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

Rogers, Adrian

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Jones, Rufus M.

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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 does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.

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

James, William

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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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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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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Young

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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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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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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

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

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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