Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Benedict, Ruth

Best Quotes about Faith

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

William Hazlitt

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

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

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.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, Indian

19.

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

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

Bible

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Bible

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

James, William

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

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Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.

Lewis, C. S.

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

William Shakespeare

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Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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All things are possible to him who believes. [Mark 9:23]

Bible

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

Donne, John

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

Ward, C. M.

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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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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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Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. [On the subject of her multiple marriages]

Gardner, Ava

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

Benedict, Ruth

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

Forster, Edward M.