Motivational Quotes

Faith

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

- Stella Terrill Mann

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

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

Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Augustine, St.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Cooley, Mason

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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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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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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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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Hazlitt

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Harrington, Bob

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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.

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Thoreau, Henry David

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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 useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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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