Motivational Quotes

Faith

The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

- Hlavaty, Vaclav

Best Quotes about Faith

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

James, William

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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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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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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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Luther, Martin

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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.

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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

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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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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Donne, John

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

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

Bible

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Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.

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The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bronte, Emily

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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 contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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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Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Cooley, Mason

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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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 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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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

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

Stanislaw Lem

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery