Motivational Quotes

Faith

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]

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Best Quotes about Faith

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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.

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Donne, John

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

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

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Weil, Simone

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

William Hazlitt

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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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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

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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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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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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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As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Stanislaw Lem

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ward, C. M.

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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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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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Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

Henry S. Haskins

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin