Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Jones, Rufus M.

Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bible

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

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Bible

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Young

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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

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

William Hazlitt

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

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Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. [Peter 3:15]

Bible

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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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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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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Luther, Martin

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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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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 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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God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Bronte, Emily

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

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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