FAITH QUOTES IV

quotations about faith

I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated and grow depends to a large extent on how we are welcomed into the world and what kinds of environments we grow in. Faith is interactive and social; it requires community, language, ritual and nurture. Faith is also shaped by initiatives from beyond us and other people, initiatives of spirit or grace. How these latter initiatives are recognized and imaged, or unperceived and ignored, powerfully affects the shape of faith in our lives.

JAMES W. FOWLER

introduction, Stages of Faith

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We may still say perhaps "faith governs the world"--but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest--it is in reason and science.

HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL

Journal Intime

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The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.

WILLIAM JAMES

"The Dilemma of Determinism"

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Faith is the enemy of discovery.

SIMON MAWER

The Gospel of Judas

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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

PHILIP YANCEY

Finding God in Unexpected Places

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Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.

BRUCE LEE

Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.

ARTHUR MILLER

The Crucible

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Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it. Such confidence and knowledge of God's grace makes you happy, joyful and bold in your relationship to God and all creatures.

MARTIN LUTHER

"An Introduction to St. Paul's Letter to the Romans", Dr. Martin Luthers Vermischte Deutsche Schriften

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That mysterious stone on which Jacob reposed was faith. Let us, too, sleep on its breast, and our future greatness will be revealed to us.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles," The Writings of Madame Swetchine

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Faith is private capital, kept in one's own house. There are public savings-banks and loan-offices, which supply individuals in their day of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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The discoveries of science have proved that the opinions concerning a firmament above, and a flat earth beneath, are completely inaccurate; but faith delights more in sublimity than truth; it soars far above science in its discoveries, and holds accuracy in contempt.

ETHAN ALLEN

Reason: The Only Oracle of Man

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To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

WALTER LIPPMANN

The Stakes of Diplomacy

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Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me.

WALT DISNEY

The Gospel According to Disney

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We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

STEPHEN KING

Danse Macabre

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Faith has not lost its power. The soul still enjoys this privilege of receiving inspiration from above. It is not the special prerogative of a few saints. It is the common right of all. It is not an occasional, exceptional gift. It is constant, continuous, the law of our being. It is not a miracle, interfering with the operations of the human soul. It is the condition of our soul's true life.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Old Testament Shadows of New Testament Truths

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To follow, under all circumstances, the highest promptings within you; to be always true to the divine self; to rely upon the inward Voice, the inward Light, and to pursue your purpose with a fearless and restful heart, believing that the future will yield unto you the need of every thought and effort; knowing that the laws of the universe can never fail, and that your own will come back to you with mathematical exactitude -- this is faith and the living of faith.

JAMES ALLEN

Morning and Evening Thoughts

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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

ALEISTER CROWLEY

The Book of Lies

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Faith is a gift of God, which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menace of torture.

THOMAS HOBBES

Leviathan

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Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don't have to make the case for what you believe. If somebody announces that it is part of his faith, the rest of society, whether of the same faith, or another, or of none, is obliged, by ingrained custom, to "respect" it without question; respect it until the day it manifests itself in a horrible massacre like the destruction of the World Trade Center, or the London or Madrid bombings.

RICHARD DAWKINS

The God Delusion

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The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

JAMES BALDWIN

The Fire Next Time

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