Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Russell, Thomas

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Young

Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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 must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Luther, Martin

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Haggai, John

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At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

Lucado, Max L.

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Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

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When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

Teller, Edward

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

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

Harrington, Bob

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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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

James, William

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

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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

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Barton, Bruce

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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

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And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher

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We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of GodÆs existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

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