Motivational Quotes

Faith

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Best Quotes about Faith

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Dillard, Annie

The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Bible

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Haggai, John

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Stanislaw Lem

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At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

Lucado, Max L.

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Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.

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

Benedict, Ruth

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Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.

Wesley, John

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

Bronte, Emily

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

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Trueblood, Elton

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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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, 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 is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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]

Bible

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell