Faith Quotes
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Faith is believing that the things you cannot see are more real than the things you can see.
Karen Wheaton -
Love, like the opening of the heavens to the Saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest man, the possibilities of the human race. He has faith, hope, and charity for another being, perhaps but a creation of his imagination: still it is a great advance for a man to be profoundly loving even in his imaginations.
Philip James Bailey
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Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.
Thomas Aquinas -
There's a difference between religion and faith," Chandi said, "Religion means you've accepted a set of beliefs even if those beliefs would appear to be irrational to anyone who doesn't buy into them. Faith means you've chosen to accept something that you've given yourself the chance to question.
Allen Steele -
In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.
Wendy Kaminer -
Faith is the fullness to realize that each moment of our lives is a gift; that the whole of our lives is a spiritual journey, whether in our darkest hours or brightest joys.
Bo Lozoff -
My faith is the only thing that never fails me.
Hayley Williams Paramore -
I have more faith now than I ever had before.
Andrea Hall
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It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.
Seneca the Younger -
The principle exercise which the children of god have is to pray. For in this way they give true proof of their faith.
John Calvin -
Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.
Edward McKendree Bounds -
This does not mean that we need treat all as equally true: it is up to individuals and groups to make up their minds. Freedom of faith allows for rich diversity of judgements as to the truth.
Ninian Smart -
I think the essential point is a weakness of faith.
Pope Benedict XVI -
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things.
Martin Luther
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Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.
Benjamin Stillingfleet -
Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in the poetic imagination; knowledge, on the other hand, originates in the reasoning intelligence of man. Science has to pluck the blessed fruits from the tree of knowledge, unconcerned whether these conquests trench upon the poetical imaginings of faith or not.
Ernst Haeckel -
It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.
Steve Jobs -
The person who thinks with their own brain is to be preferred to the one who blindly approves everything.... Better an error consciously committed and in good faith, than a good action performed in a servile manner.
Errico Malatesta -
Faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don’t have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move.
Betty Eadie -
We are coerced into faith by our suffering.
James Cook
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Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.
Victor Hugo -
I am sorry for causing anyone to lose faith in sport.
Lizzie Armitstead -
Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.
Thomas A. Edison -
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller