Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

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

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

When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

Teller, Edward

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 the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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

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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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And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. [Hebrews 11:6]

Bible

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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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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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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 is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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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 builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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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 is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

James, William

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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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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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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 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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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Luther, Martin

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Ward, C. M.

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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.