Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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.

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

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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'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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The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pope, Alexander

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

William Hazlitt

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

James, William

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of GodÆs existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

Real Live Preacher

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

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

Billings, Josh

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Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

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