Motivational Quotes

Faith

Non-violence is the article of faith.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Faith

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Tocqueville, Alexis De

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Stott, John R.

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

Cooley, Mason

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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 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 contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Harrington, Bob

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Haggai, John

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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

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

James, William

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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]

Bible

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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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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Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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