Faith Quotes

Belief in something greater, whether divine, human, or simply possible.

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"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
Demosthenes
"Man's faith in himself is the foundation of all great deeds."
Leonidas I
"The longest journey begins with a single step of faith."
Leonidas I
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"Religious conviction and political necessity are often uneasy companions."
Philip II
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"Those who serve the crown must first serve something greater than themselves."
Philip II
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"A kingdom is only as strong as the bonds of faith that hold its people together."
Philip II
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"One cannot serve both God and ambition without learning to reconcile them."
Philip II
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"The darkness of doubt often precedes the light of conviction."
Philip II
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"The divine right to rule carries with it the divine responsibility to serve justly."
Philip II
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"To preserve the faith is to preserve the kingdom; to lose one is to lose the other."
Philip II
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"A man's faith is tested not in moments of triumph, but in moments of defeat."
Philip II
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"I prefer the company of God to the company of men, for God judges fairly."
Philip II
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"I have learned that the true measure of faith is what one sacrifices for it."
Philip II
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"The strength of a kingdom is the strength of the convictions that bind it."
Philip II
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"The divine will works through human agency, and I am merely an instrument of providence."
Philip II
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"Faith in reason is the highest faith."
Aristarchus
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"Faith in the power of reason is vindicated by every true discovery."
Aristarchus
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"The heavens declare not God, but the laws of nature."
Eratosthenes
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"To preserve a book is to preserve a human soul."
Eratosthenes
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"Faith is trust in what we cannot yet see but choose to believe."
Isocrates
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"In the angles and arcs lies the language of God; fluency comes through dedication."
Hipparchus
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"The human body operates by divine law."
Galen
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"The human spirit cannot be healed by medicine alone."
Galen
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"The body is the temple of the soul."
Galen
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"Piety is the ornament of the aged."
Xenophon
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"Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through contentment with the goodness of the physician."
Hippocrates
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"The things that are holy are revealed to those who are holy."
Hippocrates
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"In numbers and lines, the divine becomes visible."
Eratosthenes
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"To calculate is to hope; in every calculation lies faith in understanding."
Eratosthenes
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"The fear of the gods is the beginning of wisdom."
Thucydides