Motivational Quotes

Faith

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Niebuhr, Reinhold

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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

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

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Donne, John

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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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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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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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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All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

Lucado, Max L.

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

Moody, Dwight L.

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

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

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Faith does not deny the evil, but it sees around it.

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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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A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Harrington, Bob

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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 course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

James, William

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