Motivational Quotes

Faith

Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

- Henry S. Haskins

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

All things are possible to him who believes. [Mark 9:23]

Bible

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

James, William

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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

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Young

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Bible

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

Benedict, Ruth

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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 to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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

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

Tozer, A. W.

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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

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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

Teller, Edward

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

Russell, Thomas

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

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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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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Bible

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

William Hazlitt

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

Bronte, Emily

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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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There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

Butterworth, Eric

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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