Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Russell, Thomas

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

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

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

Forster, Edward M.

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To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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 the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

17.

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

18.

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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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 is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

22.

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

Bible

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

James, William

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

30.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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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 not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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

Proverb, Indian

39.

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

41.

The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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

Ward, C. M.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Benedict, Ruth

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