Lack Of Faith Quotes

• It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Faith, Sports

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2017

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• There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

  William James

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Failure

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• To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people can feed, clothe and shelter themselves is just to apply palliatives. It is to show a lack of faith in one’s fellows, their responsibilitie s as children of God, heirs of heaven.

  Dorothy Day

  Children, Order, People

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• Excuses are your lack of faith in your own power.

  Robert Anthony

  Excuse

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• Yes, faith is a choice, and it must be sought after and developed. Thus, we are responsible for our own faith. We are also responsible for our lack of faith. The choice is yours.

  Richard C. Edgley

  Choices, Responsible

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• It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.

  Zoë Heller

  Atheist, Imagination, Mind

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• The world will provide you with every imaginable obstacle, but the one most difficult to overcome will be the lack of faith in yourself. Leave it to others to have doubts about you.

  Callie Khouri

  Confidence, Doubt, Overcoming

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• One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves. One of our common failings is to depreciate our tremendous worth.

  L. Tom Perry

  Weakness, Common, Failing

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• The stress that some of us feel - it's a lack of faith, it really is.

  Francis Chan

  Stress, Feels

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• We may infer from any defeat of ours that it is due either to lack of faith or failure to obey. No other reason can suffice.

  Watchman Nee

  Faith, May, Defeat

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.217, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Lying, Audacity, Problem

  "The The Ignatian Tradition". Book by Kevin F. Burke, Eileen Burke-Sullivan and Phyllis Zagano, 2009.

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• The primary cause of unhappiness in the world today is... lack of faith.

  Carl Jung

  World, Today, Causes

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• Short of actual blunders, lack of faith in one's position is the chief cause of defeat. To be sure, it is easy to recommend faith and not so easy to practise it.

  Fred Reinfeld

  Causes, Chess, Losing

  Fred Reinfeld (1961). “Great Short Games of the Chess Masters”, p.201, Courier Corporation

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• Difficulties seldom defeat people; lack of faith in themselves usually does it.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Doe, Influence

  John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (2013). “How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Faith, Atheist, Thinking

  Richard Dawkins' Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival (April 15, 1992); quoted in "EDITORIAL: A scientist's case against God", "The Independent"(London), (p. 17), April 20, 1992.

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• I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

  Muhammad Ali

  Greatness, Accomplish Nothing, Marketing

  Twitter post from Mar 28, 2010

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• But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.

  Rosamund Lupton

  Atheist, Children, Taken

  Rosamund Lupton (2011). “Afterwards”, p.187, Hachette UK

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• He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2011

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• I would advise you against defensiveness on priciple. it precludes the best eventualities along with the worst. At the most basic level it expresses a lack of faith.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Levels, Worst, Advise

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• Things do fall apart. It is in their nature to do so. When we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of change, we are not listening to the soul. We are listening to our fear of life and death, our lack of faith, our smaller ego's will to prevail. To listen to the soul is to stop fighting with life-to stop fighting when things fall apart, when they don't go our way, when we get sick, when we are betrayed or mistreated or misunderstood. To listen to the soul is to slow down, to feel deeply, to see ourselves clearly, to surrender to discomfort and uncertainty, and to wait.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Fall, Fighting, Life And Death

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• The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Doubt, Certainty

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• Man suffers through lack of faith in God.

  Ramakrishna

  Men, Suffering, Faith In God

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• But the lack of faith could just as well be a crutch for non-believers, allowing them to live their lives without any concept of accountability and giving them some sort of false confidence. The different is that while Catholicism has an abundance of intellectual underpinnings to support its arguments, anti-Catholicism and atheist have few if any.

  Michael Coren

  Atheist, Giving, Accountability

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• God loves me just as I am today. He knows all my junk....and lack of faith, and he loves me anyway. However, he loves me too much to leave me the way I am.

  Michelle Akers

  Growth, Junk, Today

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• Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.

  Denise Levertov

  Imagination, Mediocrity, Capacity

  Denise Levertov (1973). “The poet in the world”, New Directions Publishing Corporation

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