Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

- Willmott, Robert Eldridge

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

Bible

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

Cooley, Mason

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

Moody, Dwight L.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Wilde, Oscar

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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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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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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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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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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

William Hazlitt

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

Lewis, C. S.

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What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Shakti Gawain

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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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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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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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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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Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Bible

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

Trueblood, Elton

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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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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 love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Luther, Martin

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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