Motivational Quotes

Faith

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

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

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20]

Bible

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Young

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

Ward, C. M.

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

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

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Donne, John

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bernard, St.

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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 much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

William Shakespeare

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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 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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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Bible

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

Bronte, Emily

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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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

Trueblood, Elton

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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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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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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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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