Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Jones, Rufus M.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

James, William

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

Ruskin, John

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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

Fromm, Erich

Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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

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Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.

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Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Curtis, Donald

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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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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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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

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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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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.

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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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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

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Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Thackeray, William M.

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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

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Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

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

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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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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20]

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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]

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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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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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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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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.