957 private quotes tagged faith

“Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.” — Andrea Dworkin

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“'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.” — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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“Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.” — Charles Wesley

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“A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.” — Joseph Smith, Jr.

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“I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“Fear clogs faith liberates.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“Faith is a state of openness or trust.” — Alan Watts

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“The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them.” — Blaise Pascal

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“We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.” — Ernest Holmes

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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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“There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.” — John Wooden

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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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“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.” — Thomas Paine

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“At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.” — Richard Dawkins

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“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.” — Alan Watts

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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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“Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.” — Martin Luther

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“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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“How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.” — Michel de Montaigne

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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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“Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.” — Mason Cooley

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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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“Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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