Quotes about faith

"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 on faith   

"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."

Kierkegaard, Søren on faith
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"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble."

Kipling, Rudyard on faith
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"Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods."

Lewis, C. S. on faith
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"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it."

Lincoln, Abraham on faith
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"Faith is the refusal to panic."

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn on faith
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"It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner."

Lombardi, Vince on faith
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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 on faith   

"The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."

Lowell, James Russell on faith   

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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 on faith   

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

Luther, Martin on faith   

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

Luther, Martin on faith
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"Reason is the enemy of faith."

Luther, Martin on faith
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"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times."

Luther, Martin on faith
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"Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ."

Luther, Martin on faith
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"The principal part of faith is patience."

Macdonald, George on faith
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"The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?"

Markham, Edwin on faith   

"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 on faith   

"Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."

Melville, Herman on faith   

"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."

Mencken, H. L. on faith
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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 on faith   

"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 on faith
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"Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy."

Moody, Dwight L. on faith
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"It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?"

Moody, Dwight L. on faith   

"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 on faith   

"The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety."

Mueller, George E. on faith
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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 on faith   

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

Newman, Cardinal J. on faith
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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 on faith   

"Faith is the heroism of the intellect."

Parkhurst, Charles H. on faith   

"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."

Pascal, Blaise on faith
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"Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other."

Pascal, Blaise on faith
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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 on faith   

"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 on faith
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"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."

Plato on faith
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"I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers."

Pope, Alexander on faith   

"Weave in faith and God will find the thread."

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

Proverb, Indian on faith
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"Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago."

Roberts, B.H. on faith
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