Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

- Hightower, Cullen

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

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

William Shakespeare

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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

Jones, Rufus M.

As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

Donne, John

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

Harrington, Bob

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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

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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 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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A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

Rogers, Adrian

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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

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

Bible

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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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

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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

More, Hannah

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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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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

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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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Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

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

Russell, Thomas

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The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Barton, Bruce

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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

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

Young

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Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

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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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.