Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Faith

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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.

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

Cooley, Mason

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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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.

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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Miller, Henry

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Donne, John

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Stanislaw Lem

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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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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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Luther, Martin

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Young

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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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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

William Hazlitt

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

William Shakespeare

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

James, William

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Hightower, Cullen

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

Donne, John

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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