Motivational Quotes

Faith

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

Best Quotes about Faith

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

Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

Henry S. Haskins

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

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

Bible

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

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

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

Donne, John

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Billings, Josh

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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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

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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

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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

More, Hannah

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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 a higher faculty than reason.

Bailey, Henry Christopher

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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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For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20]

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Weave in faith and God will find the thread.

Proverb

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Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true

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

Jones, Rufus M.

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

Ward, C. M.

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

Bible

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Faith lives in honest doubt.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Trueblood, Elton

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Reason is the enemy of faith.

Luther, Martin

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

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Luther, Martin

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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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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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Desire, ask, believe, receive.

Stella Terrill Mann

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

Rogers, Adrian

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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Rutherford, Samuel

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

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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

Confucius

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Non-violence is the article of faith.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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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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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

Roberts, B.H.

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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

Lubbock, Sir John