Motivational Quotes

Faith

I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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

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

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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.

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

William Shakespeare

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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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

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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 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 belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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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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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Young

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.

Salter, William

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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

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

Bible

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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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In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

Gurdjieff, George

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

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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

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Beaumont, Francis

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Ward, C. M.

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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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It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Shakti Gawain