Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Miller, Henry

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

James, William

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

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

Bronte, Emily

It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

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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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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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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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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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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 love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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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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

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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]

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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]

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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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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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Thoreau, Henry David

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As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.

Salter, William

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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 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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ward, C. M.

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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

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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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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.