Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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.

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Bible

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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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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 the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

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

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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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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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 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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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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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

James, William

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

William Hazlitt

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

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The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Mueller, George E.

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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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

James, William

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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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There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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