Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Bible

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

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

William Hazlitt

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Russell, Thomas

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Bible

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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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All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Donne, John

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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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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You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Bakker, Jim

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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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.

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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Luther, Martin

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma