Motivational Quotes

Faith

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]

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Best Quotes about Faith

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

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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

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

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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.

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Ruskin, 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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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 builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cooley, Mason

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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

William Shakespeare

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When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

Teller, Edward

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Bernard, St.

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.