Motivational Quotes

Faith

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Bible

Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

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

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

Chambers, Oswald

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.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Trueblood, Elton

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

Cooley, Mason

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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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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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

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Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.

Wesley, John

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

Russell, Thomas

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

Proverb, Indian

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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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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Harrington, Bob

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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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.

Real Live Preacher

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Bible

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bronte, Emily

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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.

Edwards, Tryon

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

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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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Faith is the vision of the heart; it sees God in the dark as well as in the day.

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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 a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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

Ward, C. M.

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