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

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

James, William

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Luther, Martin

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

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It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Bardot, Brigitte

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If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

George E. Woodberry

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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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 is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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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 is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

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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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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]

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Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.

Wesley, John

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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

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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]

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Stott, John R.

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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

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Benedict, Ruth

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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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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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God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

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

Young

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

William Hazlitt

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