Motivational Quotes

Faith

Non-violence is the article of faith.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Proverb, Indian

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

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Cooley, Mason

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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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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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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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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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Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.

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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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The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Mueller, George E.

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

Fromm, Erich

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

James, William

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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Luther, Martin

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Luther, Martin

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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Bakker, Jim

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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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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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 means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher