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

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

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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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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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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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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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 not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Cooley, Mason

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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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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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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, 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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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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It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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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God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

Holliwell, Raymond

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'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Thackeray, William M.

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Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. [Peter 3:15]

Bible

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

Bernanos, Georges

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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann