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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
31 thoughts from Eric Hoffer
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
5 more views from Oswald Chambers
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
3 thoughts from Mary McLeod Bethune
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
117 other wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau
Faith never makes a confession.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.
5 more thoughts from Aphra Behn
I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.
6 quotes from Emily Bronte
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
3 sayings from John Paul Jones
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
7 views from John Calvin
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
19 quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
31 more wisdom & wit from Eric Hoffer
The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.
7 views from Claude Bernard
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
117 wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
31 thoughts from Eric Hoffer
To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
10 other thoughts from Hermann Hesse
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
31 more sayings from Eric Hoffer
Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
3 sayings from Mary McLeod Bethune
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
19 other quotes from E. B. White
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
3 quotes from Dorothy Thompson
The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
6 views from Abraham Cahan
Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
5 more sayings from Irving Babbitt
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
18 quotes from Mother Teresa
Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.
11 other quotes from Paul Tillich
Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
2 more wisdom & wit from Hans Urs von Balthasar
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
11 views from Paul Tillich
Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.
11 sayings from Paul Tillich
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
13 more quotes from Herman Melville
I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
4 other views from Stanley Baldwin
For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
4 quotes from Felix Adler
In Christ the original image of God is restored, by faith in this world and by sight in the world to come.
2 more sayings from Walter Lang
In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.
2 thoughts from Kenneth Scott Latourette
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
24 quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel
As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.
6 sayings from Francis Parker Yockey
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
9 more wisdom & wit from Elizabeth I
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
24 quotes from Henri Frederic Amiel
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
60 more wisdom & wit from H. L. Mencken
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
12 other quotes from Miguel de Unamuno
For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
23 quotes from T. S. Eliot
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
12 quotes from Miguel de Unamuno
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
12 quotes from Miguel de Unamuno
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
24 other sayings from Henri Frederic Amiel
I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.
4 quotes from Patsy Cline
The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism.
6 quotes from Francis Parker Yockey
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
103 other quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them.
13 quotes from Mahalia Jackson
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
100 views from Mahatma Gandhi
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
100 other views from Mahatma Gandhi
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
4 quotes from Aleister Crowley
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
100 sayings from Mahatma Gandhi
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
100 other thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
4 thoughts from Franz Liszt
Non-violence is the article of faith.
100 other quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
33 thoughts from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
15 quotes from William Penn
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
3 wisdom & wit from Jonathan Edwards
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
24 other thoughts from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
100 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
33 more quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
To me faith means not worrying.
9 sayings from John Dewey
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
8 quotes from Thomas Browne
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
8 quotes from Thomas Browne
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
32 thoughts from Martin Luther
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
11 sayings from Bruce Lee
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
32 views from Martin Luther
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
78 wisdom & wit from Voltaire
Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.
3 quotes from George Edward Moore
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.
32 more wisdom & wit from Martin Luther
Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
32 other sayings from Martin Luther
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
32 quotes from Martin Luther
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
10 quotes from Louisa May Alcott
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
25 other quotes from C. S. Lewis
If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.
14 views from Muhammad Iqbal
Pray, and let God worry.
32 more quotes from Martin Luther
Reason is the enemy of faith.
32 quotes from Martin Luther
Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.
3 thoughts from Ellen G. White
The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.
3 more sayings from Ellen G. White
The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.
6 more sayings from Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
52 quotes from Albert Camus
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
30 quotes from Gustave Flaubert
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
46 views from George Santayana
Duty cannot exist without faith.
75 other views from Benjamin Disraeli
Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
68 thoughts from Samuel Butler
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
3 quotes from Lillian Smith
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
5 wisdom & wit from Albert Pike
Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.
5 other views from George Whitefield
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
14 other wisdom & wit from Heinrich Heine
Is a faith without action a sincere faith?
5 quotes from Jean Racine
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
58 more thoughts from Thomas Carlyle
Obedience is the fruit of faith.
4 other quotes from Christina Rossetti
The principle part of faith is patience.
12 more sayings from George MacDonald
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
6 views from Alexander Smith
What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
68 other wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
7 sayings from John Greenleaf Whittier
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
5 other sayings from Muhammad Ali Jinnah
You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
68 wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
11 quotes from Douglas MacArthur
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
16 views from Alan Watts
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
16 quotes from Alan Watts
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
56 more quotes from Khalil Gibran
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
20 quotes from Thomas Aquinas
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
56 views from Khalil Gibran
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
16 sayings from Alan Watts
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
19 views from Anton Chekhov
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
56 quotes from Khalil Gibran
Faith is not contrary to reason.
3 views from Sherwood Eddy
Faith is reason grown courageous.
3 views from Sherwood Eddy
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
2 quotes from William Ames
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
40 more quotes from William James
Faith without works is like a bird without wings though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
3 other wisdom & wit from Francis Beaumont
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
26 quotes from E. M. Forster
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
5 quotes from J. R. R. Tolkien
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament belief is the denomination of the New.
2 other wisdom & wit from Benjamin Whichcote
He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.
21 more sayings from Abu Bakr
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.
20 other quotes from Thomas Aquinas
I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it.
19 quotes from Edgar Allan Poe
I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
26 more sayings from E. M. Forster
I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.
14 other views from Loretta Young
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
96 views from Benjamin Franklin
Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.
12 other sayings from Thomas a Kempis
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
23 more sayings from Helen Rowland
Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
40 other sayings from William James
Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
24 more thoughts from Franklin D. Roosevelt
Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right.
10 more views from John Donne
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
41 views from Martin Luther King, Jr.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
96 more wisdom & wit from Benjamin Franklin
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
40 thoughts from William James
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
21 quotes from Abu Bakr
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
96 other quotes from Benjamin Franklin
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
20 sayings from Thomas Aquinas
We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
8 quotes from Ernest Holmes
When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith and the universe is built on faith.
8 quotes from Ernest Holmes
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
10 sayings from Tertullian
Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.
3 thoughts from Sherwood Eddy
Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
4 quotes from William Gurnall
Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
4 quotes from William Gurnall
Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.
2 views from Herbert Croly
Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
3 quotes from Romain Rolland
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
73 other sayings from Victor Hugo
A library implies an act of faith.
73 other quotes from Victor Hugo
A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
16 quotes from Havelock Ellis
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
25 thoughts from Simone Weil
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
31 quotes from Thomas Paine
Faith is not a thing which one 'loses,' we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
7 thoughts from Georges Bernanos
Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.
8 other quotes from Dwight L. Moody
God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
8 more wisdom & wit from Dwight L. Moody
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
24 other quotes from Ayn Rand
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
32 other quotes from Michel de Montaigne
I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.
5 more views from Thomas More
I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
22 wisdom & wit from Henry Adams
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
6 quotes from Charles Lindbergh
Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
47 more views from Abraham Lincoln
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
22 thoughts from Henry Adams
Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
5 quotes from Edna St. Vincent Millay
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
30 quotes from George Washington
Only faith is sufficient.
2 sayings from Robert Ley
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
4 other sayings from Robert Burton
I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.
3 more wisdom & wit from David Sarnoff
All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
3 other quotes from David Livingstone
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
16 other views from Michelangelo
God always takes the simplest way.
105 thoughts from Albert Einstein
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
23 quotes from Vincent Van Gogh
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
18 quotes from Joseph Campbell
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
16 quotes from Michelangelo
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
9 other sayings from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.
9 quotes from Lawrence Welk
It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.
4 quotes from Jean Ingelow
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
16 other views from Erich Fromm
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
23 quotes from Vincent Van Gogh
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
5 quotes from Augustus Hare
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.
2 quotes from Michael Polanyi
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
4 other quotes from Charles Henry Parkhurst
Faith is a passionate intuition.
21 quotes from William Wordsworth
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
11 wisdom & wit from William Ellery Channing
Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.
9 quotes from Robert Collier
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
81 other thoughts from William Shakespeare
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
12 other views from Thornton Wilder
I've lost my faith in science.
21 other quotes from Bette Davis
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
42 quotes from Josh Billings
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
38 wisdom & wit from William Hazlitt
Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
5 wisdom & wit from Oliver Cromwell
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
81 sayings from William Shakespeare
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
14 quotes from Clarence Darrow
We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.
4 wisdom & wit from David Brainerd
Faith is the heroism of the intellect.
4 quotes from Charles Henry Parkhurst
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
23 quotes from Niccolo Machiavelli
Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
6 quotes from Karl Barth
Faith is never identical with piety.
6 more quotes from Karl Barth
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
35 more views from Rabindranath Tagore
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
22 wisdom & wit from Soren Kierkegaard
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
6 views from Francis Quarles
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
43 quotes from Alexander Pope
God enters by a private door into every individual.
135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
10 other sayings from Wilson Mizner
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
23 wisdom & wit from E. W. Howe
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
10 thoughts from Novalis
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.
22 thoughts from Robert Browning
Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.
135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them.
22 quotes from James Dyson
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
33 other thoughts from Thomas Huxley
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
24 other sayings from Joseph Addison
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
3 views from Jacqueline Cochran
While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
3 views from Julia Ward Howe
Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
12 other views from Marquis de Sade
But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.
3 sayings from Anna Letitia Barbauld
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
58 other thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them.
57 quotes from Blaise Pascal
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
57 thoughts from Blaise Pascal
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
57 more quotes from Blaise Pascal
Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
57 quotes from Blaise Pascal
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
58 other sayings from Henry Ward Beecher
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
31 sayings from Helen Keller
Fear clogs faith liberates.
59 other quotes from Elbert Hubbard
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
7 views from Harriet Beecher Stowe
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
57 other quotes from Blaise Pascal
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.
57 more quotes from Blaise Pascal
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
15 wisdom & wit from Reinhold Niebuhr
Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
59 more wisdom & wit from Elbert Hubbard
My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.
15 other quotes from Norman Cousins
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
12 other quotes from Marquis de Sade
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.
15 more quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
31 other sayings from Helen Keller
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
10 more quotes from William Ralph Inge
Faith is the black person's federal reserve system.
5 wisdom & wit from Hattie McDaniel
I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.
4 other wisdom & wit from Matthew Simpson
If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.
4 thoughts from Matthew Simpson
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
4 more views from Matthew Simpson
Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.
3 views from George A. Smith
We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
4 thoughts from Matthew Simpson