Motivational Quotes

Faith

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Jones, Rufus M.

The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.

Russell, Thomas

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

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Indian

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

James, William

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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

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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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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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It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

Evarts, William M.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young

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

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

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

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

William Hazlitt

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Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Tozer, A. W.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.