Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Mueller, George E.

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Indian

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Bernard, St.

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

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Donne, John

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It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

Evarts, William M.

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

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

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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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

30.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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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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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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That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary

Nerys, Major Kira

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

James, William

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

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

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

Bible

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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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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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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

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

Harrington, Bob

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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

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

Cooley, Mason