957 private quotes tagged faith

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

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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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“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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“But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.” — Steve Jobs

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“For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.” — T. S. Eliot

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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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“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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“Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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