Motivational Quotes

Faith

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.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

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

James, William

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

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Donne, John

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Luther, Martin

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

James, William

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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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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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.

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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God, I donÆt have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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 is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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

William Shakespeare

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

James, William

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