Motivational Quotes

Faith

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Harrington, Bob

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Donne, John

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

Proverb, Indian

Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Greene, Graham

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

Bronte, Emily

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The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher

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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

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

James, William

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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

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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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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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No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

Ward, C. M.

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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

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

Bible

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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

Joyce, James

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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 different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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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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We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of GodÆs existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

Real Live Preacher

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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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Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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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, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Tozer, A. W.

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

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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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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

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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