Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Hlavaty, Vaclav

Best Quotes about Faith

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

William Hazlitt

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 not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Young

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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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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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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As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.

Salter, William

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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

William Shakespeare

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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

James, William

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Greene, Graham

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Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.

Wesley, John

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

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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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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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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

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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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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 a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Luther, Martin

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

Cooley, Mason

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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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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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Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Benedict, Ruth

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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