Motivational Quotes

Faith

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

- Niebuhr, Reinhold

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Ward, C. M.

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

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

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 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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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 continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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

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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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

William Shakespeare

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Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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

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

James, William

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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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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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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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

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

Bible

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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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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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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.

Real Live Preacher

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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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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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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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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

More, Hannah

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

Young

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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