957 private quotes tagged faith

“God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.” — Ayn Rand

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“Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.” — Mason Cooley

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“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.” — Khalil Gibran

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“It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.” — Muhammad Ali

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“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“I gave in, and admitted that God was God.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.” — Dalai Lama

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“Faith is spiritualized imagination.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Reason is the enemy of faith.” — Martin Luther

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“Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.” — Martin Luther

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“Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.” — Martin Luther

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“Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.” — Gore Vidal

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“Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.” — Dalai Lama

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“All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.” — Martin Luther

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“I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.” — E. B. White

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