Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

- Parkhurst, Charles H.

Best Quotes about Faith

Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Luther, Martin

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

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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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

William Shakespeare

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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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 builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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.

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

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

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

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

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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.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Ward, C. M.

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Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

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

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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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