Motivational Quotes

Faith

What we wish, that we readily believe.

- Demosthenes

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Benedict, Ruth

No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.

Ward, C. M.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

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The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

Hlavaty, Vaclav

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Fromm, Erich

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

Mueller, George E.

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

Stott, John R.

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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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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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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Luther, Martin

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Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Curtis, Donald

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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]

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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 not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

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

Haggai, John

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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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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