Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Bronte, Emily

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Thoreau, Henry David

All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Haggai, John

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.

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Curtis, Donald

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

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Stott, John R.

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

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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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.

More, Hannah

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Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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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

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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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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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As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.

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

Donne, John

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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Benedict, Ruth

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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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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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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Sand, George

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.