“I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.”
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“The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.”
“Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.”
“The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.”
“There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.”
“Base souls have no faith in great individuals.”
“Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.”
“I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office.”
“My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.”
“Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.”
“An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.”
“Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.”
“Faith without works is like a bird without wings though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.”
“You just have to have a simple faith.”
“Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.”
“They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.”
“Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.”
“A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.”
“I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.”
“Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people.”
“And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.”
“If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.”
“Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.”
“Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.”