“Faith never makes a confession.”
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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.”
“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.”
“Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?”
“It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.”
“It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.”
“To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.”
“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.”
“Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.”
“Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.”
“Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.”
“There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.”
“Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'”
“If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.”
“Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”
“There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.”
“Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.”
“Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.”
“We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.”
“Duty cannot exist without faith.”
“Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.”