Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

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

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

Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Rogers, Adrian

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Haggai, John

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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.

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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

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

James, William

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

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Luther, Martin

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

Russell, Thomas

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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 trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

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

Harrington, Bob

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, 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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Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

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

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