Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Trueblood, Elton

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]

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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.

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

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Stanislaw Lem

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him. [Hebrews 11:6]

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20]

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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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.

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith.

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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, 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 love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

James, William

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

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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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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. 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 a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.

Salter, William

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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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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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Donne, John

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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

Auden, W. H.

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

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