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 faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

Evarts, William M.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bible

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Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Luther, Martin

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Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

James, William

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

Young

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

Russell, Thomas

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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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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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As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.

Salter, William

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Cooley, Mason

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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

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

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

Luther, Martin

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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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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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Dillard, Annie

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

Hightower, Cullen

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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