Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Fromm, Erich

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

Webster, Daniel

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

Young

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

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

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Benedict, Ruth

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

William Shakespeare

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Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

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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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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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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Donne, John

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

James, William

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

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