Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Mueller, George E.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cooley, Mason

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Bible

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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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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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No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

Ward, C. M.

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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

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

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

George E. Woodberry

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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 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.

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

James, William

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

Proverb, Indian

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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]

Bible

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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 a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.