Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Trueblood, Elton

Best Quotes about Faith

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

As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

Donne, John

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Pope, Alexander

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

Miller, Henry

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.

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Donne, John

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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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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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The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

Real Live Preacher

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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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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All things are possible to him who believes. [Mark 9:23]

Bible

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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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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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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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

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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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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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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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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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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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.

Real Live Preacher

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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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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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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Hightower, Cullen

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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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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.