“The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.”
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“Doubt is not the opposite of faith it is one element of faith.”
“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.”
“I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.”
“The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.”
“As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.”
“If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.”
“The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin.”
“Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.”
“Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.”
“Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.”
“Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.”
“To disbelieve is easy to scoff is simple to have faith is harder.”
“In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.”
“The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.”
“An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.”
“If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.”
“For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.”
“Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.”
“You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.”
“Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.”
“If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.”
“A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.”
“That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”