Quotes about faith

"It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed."

Dillard, Annie on faith
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"As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else."

Donne, John on faith
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"Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity."

Donne, John on faith   

"Faith is not contrary to reason"

Eddy, Sherwood on faith   

"Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated."

Edwards, Tryon on faith
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"To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness."

Einstein, Albert on faith
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"Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faith
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"All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faith
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"The course of everything goes to teach us faith."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faith   

"The faith that stands on authority is not faith."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faith
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"It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne."

Evarts, William M. on faith   

"Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible."

Forster, Edward M. on faith   

"Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them."

Frankl, Viktor E. on faith
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"In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it."

Franklin, Benjamin on faith
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"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."

Franklin, Benjamin on faith
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"Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others."

Fromm, Erich on faith
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"Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on faith
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"Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"Non-violence is the article of faith."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."

Gibran, Kahlil on faith
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"Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice."

Goethals, George W. on faith   

"If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?"

Greene, Graham on faith
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"In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him."

Gurdjieff, George on faith   

"Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure."

Haggai, John on faith
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"A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for."

Harrington, Bob on faith
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"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory."

Hazlitt, William on faith
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"Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there."

Hightower, Cullen on faith
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"The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith."

Hlavaty, Vaclav on faith   

"Some things have to be believed to be seen."

Hodgson, Ralph on faith
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"Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power."

Hoffer, Eric on faith
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"God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body."

Holliwell, Raymond on faith
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"The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on faith
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"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on faith
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"The supernatural is the natural not yet understood."

Hubbard, Elbert on faith
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"Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case."

James, William on faith
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"Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible."

James, William on faith   

"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."

James, William on faith   

"There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out."

Jones, Rufus M. on faith
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