Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

- Sand, George

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Bible

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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 not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Stott, John R.

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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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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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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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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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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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.

Real Live Preacher

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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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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

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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 a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher