Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Faith

A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Harrington, Bob

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

Hightower, Cullen

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

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

Stott, John R.

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.

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

Stanislaw Lem

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Donne, John

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

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

William Hazlitt

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

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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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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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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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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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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'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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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

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

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.

Willmott, Robert Eldridge