Motivational Quotes

Faith

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.

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Trueblood, Elton

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

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

William Hazlitt

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

Bible

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bronte, Emily

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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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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.

Real Live Preacher

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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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

Rogers, Adrian

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Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.

Young

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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 is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe --you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Byron, Lord

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

James, William

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Greene, Graham

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

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Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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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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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

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Donne, 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

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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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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Russell, Thomas

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

Chambers, Oswald

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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