Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Bronte, Emily

Best Quotes about Faith

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

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

Haggai, John

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Trueblood, Elton

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

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

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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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Thackeray, William M.

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

James, William

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Cooley, Mason

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

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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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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 does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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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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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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

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

Stott, John R.

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

William Shakespeare

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

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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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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

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