Motivational Quotes

Faith

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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.

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

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

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

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

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

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Trueblood, Elton

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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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What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Shakti Gawain

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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. [Mark 9:23]

Bible

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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]

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Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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

Proverb, Indian

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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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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'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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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 a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.