Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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.

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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

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

Ruskin, John

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

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

James, William

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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.

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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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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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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

Butterworth, Eric

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]

Gardner, Ava

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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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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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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 is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Luther, Martin

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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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That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary

Nerys, Major Kira

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

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

Ward, C. M.

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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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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.