Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Harrington, Bob

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

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

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

Donne, John

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

Haggai, John

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

Stott, John R.

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

Chambers, Oswald

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

James, William

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

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

Real Live Preacher

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

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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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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Donne, John

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Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Beaumont, Francis

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A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

Proverb, Indian

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

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

Cooley, Mason

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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Faith is a continuation of reason.

Adams, William

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

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

Stanislaw Lem

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Bakker, Jim

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Luther, Martin

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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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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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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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

Bronte, Emily