Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Trueblood, Elton

Best Quotes about Faith

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

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Harrington, Bob

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

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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When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

Teller, Edward

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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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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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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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

Ward, C. M.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

Lucado, Max L.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bible

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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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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem