Motivational Quotes

Faith

It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

- Thackeray, William M.

Best Quotes about Faith

I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

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

William Hazlitt

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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

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

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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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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 is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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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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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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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All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bronte, Emily

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

William Shakespeare

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God, I donÆt have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher

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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

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

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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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]

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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

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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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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques