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

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

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Benedict, Ruth

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.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Thackeray, William M.

Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

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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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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Cooley, Mason

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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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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 continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Luther, Martin

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

Luther, Martin

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

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

Donne, John

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

James, William

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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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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

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Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

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What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Shakti Gawain

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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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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Ward, C. M.

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