Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is the refusal to panic.

- Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

Best Quotes about Faith

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

Acquinas, Saint Thomas

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

Holliwell, Raymond

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bible

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Curtis, Donald

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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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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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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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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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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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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

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

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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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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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Indian

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

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

Bronte, Emily

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Stanislaw Lem

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

Newman, Cardinal J.

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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 the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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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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