Edith Hamilton Quotes
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton
Quotes to Explore
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When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.
Barry Lopez
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The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.
Ed Miliband
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
Faith Evans
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It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'
Zadie Smith
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In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.
Youssou N'Dour
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By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
Ian Mcewan
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We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once.
Peter Akinola
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I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.
Norman Vincent Peale
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How many, alas, of the precious saints of God must we shut out from being believers, if there is no faith but what amounts to assurance.... shall we say their faith went away in the departure of their assurance?
William Gurnall
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During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
Randall Jarrell
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton
