Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Fromm, Erich

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

William Hazlitt

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 is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Bible

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

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Luther, Martin

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

Luther, Martin

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Benedict, Ruth

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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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]

Bible

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Hightower, Cullen

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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

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Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Young

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

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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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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.

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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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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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

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

Haggai, John