Motivational Quotes

Faith

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

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.

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

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

Rogers, Adrian

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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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

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

Webster, Daniel

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Benedict, Ruth

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

Donne, John

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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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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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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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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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The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Mueller, George E.

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We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of GodÆs existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

Real Live Preacher

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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

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Luther, Martin

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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]

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

Cooley, Mason