Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Shoemaker, Samuel M.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Luther, Martin

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

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.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

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

Ward, C. M.

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.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Augustine, St.

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

Donne, John

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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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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Indian

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

Luther, Martin

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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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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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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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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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

James, William

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary

Nerys, Major Kira

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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 the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

Cooley, Mason

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin