Motivational Quotes

Faith

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.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fromm, Erich

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Butler, Samuel

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Wooden, John

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

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Haggai, John

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Young

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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 not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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

Ward, C. M.

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Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.

Wesley, John

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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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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If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. [Mark 9:23]

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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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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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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]

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

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

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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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

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.

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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.