Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Moody, Dwight L.

Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Billings, Josh

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

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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

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

James, William

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Cooley, Mason

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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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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

George E. Woodberry

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

Russell, Thomas

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bronte, Emily

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Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Trueblood, Elton

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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.