Motivational Quotes

Faith

The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.

- Willmott, Robert Eldridge

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it canÆt be taken on its own merits.

Dan Barker

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.

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

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

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

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

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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 is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Donne, John

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Young

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

James, William

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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]

Bible

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As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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