Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

James, William

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

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

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.

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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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 is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Luther, Martin

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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Proverb, Indian

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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 something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.

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

Russell, Thomas

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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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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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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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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 trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

James, William

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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20]

Bible

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Bible

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Bernanos, Georges