Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

- Roberts, B.H.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Gibran, Kahlil

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

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.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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.

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

Harrington, Bob

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

James, William

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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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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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, 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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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

James, William

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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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Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Russell, Thomas

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

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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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'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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It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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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

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

Trueblood, Elton

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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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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

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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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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Edwards, Tryon

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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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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