Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

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

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Fromm, Erich

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Lewis, C. S.

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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stanislaw Lem

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All things are possible to him who believes. [Mark 9:23]

Bible

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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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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We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of GodÆs existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

Real Live Preacher

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

Donne, John

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

Forster, Edward M.

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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 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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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