Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. [Hebrews 11:6]

Bible

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

God, I donÆt have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

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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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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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.

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All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

Proverb, Indian

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.

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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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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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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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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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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 is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Mueller, George E.

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

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

Rogers, Adrian

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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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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 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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If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. [Mark 9:23]

Bible

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Luther, Martin

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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 love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery