There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.
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Related We lack faith in *what* exists within us because we lack faith in *Who* exists within us. MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him? VALERIE BERTINELLI What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is ther... CLIFFORD D. SIMAK Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN It’s not a lack of opportunity around me. Rather, it’s a lack of faith within me. CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928 The less y... MEISTER ECKHART Lack of confidence means you have no faith & no faith is equal to failure.One who is not confident i... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri... W. H. AUDEN Fear is a lack of faith in God and myself. JIM GENOVESE May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri... W. H. AUDEN Faith belongs to the human spirit. Faith is faith. Humanity is divided by religion, religion is the ... C. JOYBELL C. If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the fai... GRAHAM GREENE When we speak of faith - the faith that can move mountains - we are not speaking of faith in general... RUSSELL M. NELSON Some nonreligious people are disgruntled by the word "faith," feeling that it has no connection to t... KENTETSU TAKAMORI When it comes to believing in the important things in life (like love, hope, justice, peace) we have... JON MORRISON We need people who truly live their faith, represent their faith, speaking to the issues of faith th... ROLAND MARTIN One of the key differences is we have that faith element there for those parents looking for a faith... ANNA FLEMING There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. WILLIAM JAMES It says that we can't have a tapestry of faith. We must have a colorless blanket of faith. REP. RALPH FOLEY Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and whe... ADLAI E. STEVENSON Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and whe... ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and wh... ADLAI E. STEVENSON Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and whe... ADLAI E. STEVENSON Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief i... TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS Sometimes we don’t have enough faith to do big things, it is immature faith SUNDAY ADELAJA Your lack of faith disturbs me. DARTH VADER The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all,... RIDLEY SCOTT To believe in something can be inspiration for many people .To believe is to have faith in what you ... GARY F EVANS... What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, ... MITCH ALBOM Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as som... MITCH ALBOM Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in the... CHARLES H. TOWNES Prayer is not meant to always give us the answers we want. It is not the resting place upon which th... ELIZABETH D. MARIE Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative. Have faith ... ABHIJIT NASKAR I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people. HORST KOEHLER If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reas... MADELEINE L'ENGLE If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reas... MADELEINE L'ENGLE The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there... FEISAL ABDUL RAUF For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the ho... T. S. ELIOT Galvin uses the word 'faith' several times in his summation to the jury, ... He says, 'In my faith, ... SIDNEY LUMET It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in t... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Have Faith in the Pursuit of your Dreams. LUCHO LUIS VIDES It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death. JACQUELINE COCHRAN Fear is the lack of faith in one's ability to create powerful solutions. T.F. HODGE There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. WILLIAM JAMES I find your lack of faith disturbing. DAVID PROWSE Life sometimes seem difficult to live and too negative. But, with Allah Almighty every difficult and... SALSABEEL You will never choose love greater than what you believe you deserve and what other insecure people ... SHANNON L. ALDER In every religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. it is in modern day... STEVE MARABOLI The faith you have in GOD should be a mirror image of the faith you have in yourself N. S. COLE Have faith in the light you carry. SETH ADAM SMITH The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is t... JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. It is in mo... STEVE MARABOLI We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exis... GORDON ATKINSON We shall be judged according to our works – this is why we are exhorted to do good works. The Bibl... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things in yourself, for a... GEORGE E. WOODBERRY If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ... MITCH ALBOM God is merciful cant we all be on the right track of faith but just using different roads? ALI AL-AHMED We need to grow from faith to faith so that we can have victory over the world SUNDAY ADELAJA The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith i... J.M. BARRIE This was a practical application of the principle that a half-feigned and fictitious faith is better... THOMAS HARDY I will have the faith... not the faith they want me to have, but another kind of faith which is of m... FRANK MCCOURT Faith is the only thing we have right now. TRACY SMITH To have faith as small as a mustard seed is to have big faith. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. ST. AUGUSTINE If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yo... GEORGE E WOODBERRY If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in your... GEORGE E. WOODBERRY If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in your... ALEC BOURNE Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith. FRANCINE RIVERS For goodness' sake, why elevate AIDS over cancer? She shouldn't have filled out that questionnaire a... CATHIE ADAMS For goodness' sake, why elevate AIDS over cancer? She shouldn't have filled out that questionnaire a... CATHIE ADAMS Faith in others is as important as faith in oneself. In the same manner, faith in oneself is as impo... TRAVIS J HEDRICK I have no faith in my works. I know time's ocean, its lashing of waves, day by day, will erase them.... RABINDRANATH TAGORE Jesus says to anyone who uses their faith or lack of faith to excuse their acts of disobedience to h... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith... RICHARD DAWKINS I know that I had not faith, unless the faith of a devil, the faith of Judas, that speculative, noti... JOHN WESLEY Faith with proof is no faith at all. PATRICK NESS Hope and faith goes hand-in-hand, because without hope there is no faith. The same goes with want an... TEMITOPE OWOSELA Hunting is an exercise in faith … no, not faith, but optimistic patience. DAVID PETERSEN There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them. PROVERB There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them. FRENCH PROVERB Religion and faith…
So many religions but one and the only faith inside our souls…
You and me ar... SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST For faith with no effort is no faith at all. MAX LUCADO Faith is what brings many here to work, ... But we don't force the faith on anyone. BILL CAMP The law is about preventing unreasonable vilification that is not in good faith, and we see that as ... ISLAMIC COUNCIL Accept the reality of present,what gone is gone, have faith in what will be.. DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that ... C. S. LEWIS Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith... RICHARD DAWKINS Have faith in God; God has faith in you. EDWIN LOUIS COLE Great faith surfaces in great problems - have faith IKECHUKWU JOSEPH Faith that it's not always in your hands or things don't always go the way you planned, but ... MARTINA MCBRIDE The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than ... BRUCE BARTON Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions ... IBRAHIM HOOPER If the object of your faith is conquered,then the new found faith residing inside you will have no o... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There's a preponderance of evidence that we're stronger than we've ever been. We have faith in the p... DOUG ELGIN With faith, there are no questions; without faith, there are no answers. YISROEL MEIR HA-COHEN But no matter which path we take, Nessa, there will always be trying times. Faith is believing that ... KRISTIANA GREGORY It is not great faith but true faith that saves. And the salvation lies not in the faith but in the ... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself. MUHAMMAD ALI It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. MUHAMMAD ALI
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