Motivational Quotes

Faith

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Bible

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

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

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

James, William

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There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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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.

24.

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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.

28.

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

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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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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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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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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Bernard, St.

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Russell, Thomas

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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 not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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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.