957 private quotes tagged faith

“At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.” — Richard Dawkins

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“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.” — Thomas Paine

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“If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.” — Martin Luther

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

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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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“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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“Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.” — Blaise Pascal

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

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

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

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

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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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