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

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

Fromm, Erich

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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.

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

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

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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God, I donÆt have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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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

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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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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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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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All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

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

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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

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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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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]

Bible

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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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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Indian

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