Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Russell, Thomas

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Bible

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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.

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

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

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

Haggai, John

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

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

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

10.

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

Luther, Martin

11.

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

James, William

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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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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Dillard, Annie

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Moody, Dwight L.

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

Bible

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

Billings, Josh

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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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 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

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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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Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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]

Bible

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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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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

William Hazlitt

43.

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

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

Luther, Martin

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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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 desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Auden, W. H.