Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

William Shakespeare

Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

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

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Luther, Martin

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 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 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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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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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

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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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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

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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

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Rogers, Adrian

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Donne, John

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Curtis, Donald

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Newman, Cardinal J.

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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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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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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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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.

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

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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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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin