Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Bardot, Brigitte

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Fromm, Erich

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

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

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Bible

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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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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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A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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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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Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Young

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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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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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Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

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And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher

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

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Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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

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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Stanislaw Lem

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Luther, Martin

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Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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