Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Fromm, Erich

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Bible

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

10.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

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

22.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Luther, Martin

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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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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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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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.

Russell, Thomas

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

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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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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]

Bible

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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