Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Fuller, R. Buckminster

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

William Hazlitt

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.

A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

Proverb, Indian

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

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]

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

James, William

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

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]

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

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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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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

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Shakti Gawain

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Donne, John

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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.

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

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

Bronte, Emily

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

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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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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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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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Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

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

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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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Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.

Wesley, John

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Young

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Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Curtis, Donald

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Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Beaumont, Francis

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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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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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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