Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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

That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary

Nerys, Major Kira

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

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

Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

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

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

10.

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

11.

It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

20.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

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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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, 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

29.

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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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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Non-violence is the article of faith.

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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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

35.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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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

37.

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

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

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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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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Young