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

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

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

Harrington, Bob

I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Proverb, Indian

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Tozer, A. W.

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.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

William Hazlitt

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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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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

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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Auden, W. H.

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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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God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

Holliwell, Raymond

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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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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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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Stott, John R.

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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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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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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

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

Bible

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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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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Ward, C. M.

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

James, William

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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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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