Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Mueller, George E.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Bible

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Russell, Thomas

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

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

Fromm, Erich

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

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

11.

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 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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As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.

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

Luther, Martin

15.

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Bardot, Brigitte

18.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

23.

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

Bible

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Donne, John

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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

30.

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

William Hazlitt

31.

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

32.

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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And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher

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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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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

37.

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Jones, Rufus 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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Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

Webster, Daniel

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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Benedict, Ruth

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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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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.