Motivational Quotes

Faith

To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Ruskin, John

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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

Russell, Thomas

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

William Hazlitt

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

Mueller, George E.

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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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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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.

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

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As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

Donne, John

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Ward, C. M.

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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

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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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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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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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'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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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

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

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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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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

James, William

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Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

Henry S. Haskins

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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 a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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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