Motivational Quotes

Faith

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

- Stella Terrill Mann

Best Quotes about Faith

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Gibran, Kahlil

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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 a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]

Gardner, Ava

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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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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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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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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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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Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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

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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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Proverb, Indian

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Beaumont, Francis

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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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You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Bakker, Jim

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

Bible

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Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Russell, Thomas

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.