Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Faith

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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

Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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

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

Cooley, Mason

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.

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

Bernanos, Georges

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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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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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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

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

Haggai, John

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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Sand, George

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

Stott, John R.

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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Auden, W. H.

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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

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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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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Trueblood, Elton

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It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.

Dillard, Annie

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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

30.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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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 better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

William Hazlitt

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

Fromm, Erich

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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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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 trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Gibran, Kahlil