Motivational Quotes

Faith

All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

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

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Tocqueville, Alexis De

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

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.

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

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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 is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

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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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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

James, William

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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 the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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

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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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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

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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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

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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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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 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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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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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

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Cooley, Mason

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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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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 a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

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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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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Moody, Dwight L.

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

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

Young

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

Ward, C. M.