Motivational Quotes

Faith

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

- Bernard, St.

Best Quotes about Faith

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

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.

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

Donne, John

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.

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.

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

William Hazlitt

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

Augustine, St.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Russell, Thomas

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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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 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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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 is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it canÆt be taken on its own merits.

Dan Barker

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

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

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. [Hebrews 11:6]

Bible

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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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 moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Cooley, Mason

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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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.

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