Motivational Quotes

Faith

What we wish, that we readily believe.

- Demosthenes

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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

James, William

Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

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

Proverb, Indian

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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.

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Russell, Thomas

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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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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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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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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Dillard, Annie

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There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Benedict, Ruth

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

Luther, Martin

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

Bronte, Emily

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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.

Ruskin, John

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

Hightower, Cullen

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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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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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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

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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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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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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred