Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Newman, Cardinal J.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

Bronte, Emily

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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.

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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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Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. [Peter 3:15]

Bible

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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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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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Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Luther, Martin

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Bakker, Jim

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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 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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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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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

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

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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Benedict, Ruth

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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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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.

34.

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Bible

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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.

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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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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

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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 without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Beaumont, Francis

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Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.

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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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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

46.

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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