Motivational Quotes

Faith

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

- Stella Terrill Mann

Best Quotes about Faith

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Mueller, George E.

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Haggai, John

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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.

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

Bronte, Emily

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, 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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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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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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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

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

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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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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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Trueblood, Elton

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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Cooley, Mason

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hightower, Cullen

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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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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

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

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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Bible

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The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Luther, Martin