Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

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

Donne, John

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

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

Stott, John R.

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Donne, John

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

Stanislaw Lem

13.

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

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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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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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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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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

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The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Luther, Martin

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

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of GodÆs existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

Real Live Preacher

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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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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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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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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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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

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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

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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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Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]

Gardner, Ava

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

Bible

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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