Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Faith

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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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

Rogers, Adrian

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

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

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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Weil, Simone

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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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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Wooden, John

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Donne, John

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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 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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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.

Butterworth, Eric

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

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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