Motivational Quotes

Faith

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

William Shakespeare

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Bronte, Emily

Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

Pope, Alexander

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Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

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

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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 the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

Forster, Edward M.

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

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

Fromm, Erich

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

James, William

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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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A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Harrington, Bob

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

Teller, Edward

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

Ward, C. M.

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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