Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Russell, Thomas

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

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

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

Proverb, Indian

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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 is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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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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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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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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Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Luther, Martin

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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

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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

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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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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 is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ward, C. M.

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

James, William

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

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Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

Evarts, William M.

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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