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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Fromm, Erich

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

William Shakespeare

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

Augustine, St.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

Bronte, Emily

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Russell, Thomas

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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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Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20]

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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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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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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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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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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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]

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As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.

Salter, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Luther, Martin

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

James, William

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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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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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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Pope, Alexander