Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Donne, John

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

Luther, Martin

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

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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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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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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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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 love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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 something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 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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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Auden, W. H.

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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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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

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

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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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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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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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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 is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Donne, John

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

George E. Woodberry

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The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.

Russell, Thomas