FAITH QUOTES V

quotations about faith


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We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.

DEAN KOONTZ
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Brother Odd


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The shade of faith and the cloak of true godliness is the best equipage for the storm of adversity.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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How necessary it is for our happiness now, and to come, that we possess faith. The dog has faith in its master, the child in its parent, then why have we not more childlike faith in God? Let us try and bear in mind the implicit faith of Abraham, and strive more to imitate the partriarch of old. We are too apt to put faith in man, and how often we have to bitterly regret it when too late; and man only turns to God when he has tried every other source and found it fail. Why not, from the beginning, trust in God, and God alone; for he who puts his trust in man, God help him. May God give us strength, then, to nourish in all its perfection and simplicity, the faith of the patriarchs who feared and trusted God alone.

T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH

"On Faith", Short Essays


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 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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Faith ... is a conscious apprehension of something inevident, something which unlike this desk and this chair is not seen to be there, even if it enters into the fabric of our personal relations to reality with at least as much force, relevance, and moment as things which are seen to be there.

BERNARD LONERGAN

A Second Collection

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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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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 struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith.

RONALD REAGAN

speech for National Association of Evangelicals, March 8, 1983

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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 practice a faith that's been long abandoned
Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road

BOB DYLAN

"Ain't Talkin'"

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No man can be any greater of any stronger, in Christianity, than his faith.

JAMES WADDEL ALEXANDER

Faith

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In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the frost and shadow of the grave. He feels no prophecy in the thrill of the human heart--in the incompleteness of nature. He believes merely in things tangible, and sees only in the daytime. He will not confess the authenticity of that paler light of faith which was meant to shine when the sunshine of reason falls short, and the firmament of mystery is over our heads.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.

COVENTRY PATMORE

The Rod

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We may define "faith" as a firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith". We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups substitute different emotions.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Human Society in Ethics and Politics

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Faith is like a floodlight that lights our path and provides illumination to our dark world.

MEL CURTISS

Inkspirations: Devotions for a Lifetime


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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Scepticism has never founded empires, established principles, or changed the world's heart. The great doers of history have always been men of faith.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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Faith means a sanctified imagination, or the imagination applied to spiritual things.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won't remove a wart at home this week.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings

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