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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
Saint Augustine
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
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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.
H. L. Mencken
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken
I've lost my faith in science.
Bette Davis
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.
Leo Tolstoy
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
Harry S. Truman
Reason is the enemy of faith.
Martin Luther
Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.
Martin Luther
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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?
Martin Luther
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
Martin Luther
Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
Martin Luther
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
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Vincent Van Gogh
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
Soren Kierkegaard
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath Tagore
A library implies an act of faith.
Victor Hugo
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
Zig Ziglar
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
Plato
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.
Bruce Lee
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe
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
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
Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
Joel Osteen
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Thomas A. Edison
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
Joseph Campbell
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
Albert Camus
Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
Martin Luther
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Martin Luther
Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.
George W. Bush
Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.
George W. Bush
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Benjamin Franklin
If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
Dalai Lama
Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Ronald Reagan
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
Muhammad Ali
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
C. S. Lewis
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Khalil Gibran
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
Vince Lombardi
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Khalil Gibran
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Khalil Gibran
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
Barack Obama
My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
Barack Obama
My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
Barack Obama
Faith never makes a confession.
Henry David Thoreau
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
Henry David Thoreau
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Henry David Thoreau
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mohandas Gandhi
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
Mohandas Gandhi
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mohandas Gandhi
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mohandas Gandhi
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mohandas Gandhi
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Mohandas Gandhi
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
Mohandas Gandhi
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Mohandas Gandhi
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
Mohandas Gandhi
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Mohandas Gandhi
Non-violence is the article of faith.
Mohandas Gandhi
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
Mohandas Gandhi
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
Mohandas Gandhi
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
Mohandas Gandhi
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William Shakespeare
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Benjamin Franklin
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Benjamin Franklin
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor Hugo
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
Swami Vivekananda
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
William James
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
William James
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
William James
Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
William James
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William James
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren
Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
Pope John Paul II
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
William Faulkner
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Martha Graham
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
Douglas MacArthur
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Blaise Pascal
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
Blaise Pascal
It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.
Blaise Pascal
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Blaise Pascal
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Blaise Pascal
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
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.
Blaise Pascal
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
George Eliot
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Alan Watts
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Alan Watts
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
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
Alan Watts
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
Alan Watts
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Duty cannot exist without faith.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
Alexander Pope
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
Josh Billings
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
