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Quotes about Faith


Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Kahlil Gibran

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.

Carter Lindberg

Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive.

David S. Muzzey

'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true.

Friedrich Nietzche

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Blaise Pascal

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

Lillian Smith

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

Emmanuel Teney

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

Thomas Kempis

One day the faithful will have it all!

Neal A. Maxwell

The greatest act of faith is when man admits he is not god.

Oliver Wendel Holmes

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.

St Augustine

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Nietzsche

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.

St Francis of Assisi

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

St Francis of Cicero

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

St Francis of Socrates

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.

Andre Gide

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

William Hazlitt

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

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

The faith that stand on authority is not faith.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

Adlai E Stevenson

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Edward Dowden

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