“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.”
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“You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.”
“What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.”
“For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.”
“At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.”
“Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.”
“How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.”
“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.”
“Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.”
“If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.”
“If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.”
“I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.”
“Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.”
“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”
“We are never defeated unless we give up on God.”
“Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.”
“I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.”
“Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.”
“Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.”
“It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.”
“I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.”
“Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.”
“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.”
“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”