Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Stanislaw Lem

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Thoreau, Henry David

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

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

Bronte, Emily

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.

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Bible

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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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If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

George E. Woodberry

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

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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 has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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

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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.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Ward, C. M.

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

James, William

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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.

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If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. [Mark 9:23]

Bible

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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.

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