Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Tozer, A. W.

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Dillard, Annie

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

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

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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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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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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, 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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Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

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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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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Augustine, St.

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Bible

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

Fromm, Erich

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Luther, Martin