957 private quotes tagged faith

“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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“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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“A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.” — Victor Hugo

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

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“Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.” — Khalil Gibran

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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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“And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.” — Alan Watts

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“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.” — Thomas Aquinas

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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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“Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.” — Blaise Pascal

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“In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.” — Josh Billings

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“For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.” — T. S. Eliot

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“Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“God enters by a private door into every individual.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.” — Albert Einstein

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“I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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“Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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