Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Harrington, Bob

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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

Bible

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

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

When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

Teller, Edward

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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The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.

Russell, Thomas

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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ward, C. M.

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Young

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Cooley, Mason

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

James, William

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Hightower, Cullen

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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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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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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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Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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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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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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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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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.

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