Motivational Quotes

Faith

At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

- Lucado, Max L.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

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

Donne, John

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

Ward, C. M.

Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

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

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 not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Greene, Graham

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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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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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Thackeray, William M.

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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 is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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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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Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

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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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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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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Gandhi, Mahatma