Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Hlavaty, Vaclav

Best Quotes about 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

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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 to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.

Augustine, St.

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Spalding, John Lancaster

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

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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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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

Benedict, Ruth

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

Russell, Thomas

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We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of GodÆs existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

James, William

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

James, William

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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Sand, George

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Pope, Alexander

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

Bible

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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Fromm, Erich

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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 lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Ward, C. M.

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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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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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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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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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God, I donÆt have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

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