Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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.

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

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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

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

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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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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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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Luther, Martin

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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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]

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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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Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

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

Luther, Martin

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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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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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

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Donne, John

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

William Shakespeare

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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

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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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If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. [Mark 9:23]

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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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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

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