Motivational Quotes

Faith

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

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

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Bible

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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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 sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Bible

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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 love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges