Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Cooley, Mason

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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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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

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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 the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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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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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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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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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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

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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.

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Luther, Martin

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

Bronte, Emily

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All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

Joyce, James

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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

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Hightower, Cullen

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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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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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'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Thackeray, William M.

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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Wooden, John

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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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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.

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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Pascal, Blaise

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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]

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