Motivational Quotes

Faith

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

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

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

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

George E. Woodberry

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

Donne, John

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bible

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

James, William

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Hightower, Cullen

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]

Gardner, Ava

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As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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 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