957 private quotes tagged faith

“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.” — Martin Luther

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“He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.” — Thomas Paine

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“Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.” — Richard Dawkins

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“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.” — Albert Einstein

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“Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.” — Mason Cooley

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“And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.” — Alan Watts

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“Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'” — Max Planck

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“A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.” — Victor Hugo

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“I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“The faith that stands on authority is not faith.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.” — Josh Billings

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“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.” — Blaise Pascal

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“If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.” — Khalil Gibran

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“In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“God enters by a private door into every individual.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.” — Samuel Butler

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