Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

- Roberts, B.H.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

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 trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

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

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

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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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The errors of faith are better than the best thoughts of unbelief.

Russell, Thomas

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Trueblood, Elton

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

William Shakespeare

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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 is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

James, William

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

Donne, John

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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

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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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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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

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

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Luther, Martin

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred