Motivational Quotes

Faith

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Pope, Alexander

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

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

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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.

We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually is just a slow leak.

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Ward, C. M.

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

James, William

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Donne, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

Fromm, Erich

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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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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

William Hazlitt

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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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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 a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Trueblood, Elton

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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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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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bronte, Emily

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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.