Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Faith

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

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.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

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

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

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

Luther, Martin

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 building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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

Chambers, Oswald

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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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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.

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

William Hazlitt

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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.

Real Live Preacher

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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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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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ward, C. 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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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

James, William

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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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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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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

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