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

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

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

Joyce, James

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Pascal, Blaise

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Thackeray, William M.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. [Peter 3:15]

Bible

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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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 must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Cooley, Mason

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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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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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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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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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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Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Tozer, A. W.

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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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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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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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 the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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 belief without proof, but trust without reservation.