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Faith |
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Quotations
 | When we revolted, we said first for our Christian Faith and then for the Nation. — Theodoros Kolokotronis, 1770-1843, Hero of the Greek Revolution 14 likes |
 | For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice. — Saint Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274, Italian Dominican friar & philosopher 9 likes |
 | Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 8 likes |
 | Faith is the highest passion in a man. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 8 likes |
 | Everything is proof to the faithful. Everything is proof to the atheists. — Jean Dutourd, 1920-2011, French writer 7 likes |
 | In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 7 likes |
 | Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 7 likes |
 | Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logic the Knowledge of the Mind. — Erica Jong, 1942-, American writer 7 likes |
| If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 5 likes |
 | Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 5 likes |
 | I don’t have to have faith, I have experience. — Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American academic 5 likes |
 | When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean—that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one can only drink altogether two glasses—that is science. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 4 likes |
| Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 4 likes |
 | Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement 4 likes |
| Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 4 likes |
 | There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 4 likes |
 | Doubts can make you a philosopher, but only faith can make you an apostle. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims 4 likes |
 | Faith is the soul’s witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher 4 likes |
| And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 4 likes |
 | Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 3 likes |
 | Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. — Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011, British-American journalist & writer 3 likes |
 | Faith in work is probably another useless faith. — Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer 3 likes |
 | Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. — André Gide, 1869-1951, French writer, Nobel 1947 3 likes |
 | First we have to believe, and then we believe. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 3 likes |
 | It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe that there are. — Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet 3 likes |
 | I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith. — Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, German philosopher 2 likes |
 | Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 2 likes |
| Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 2 likes |
 | I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. — Lord Byron, 1788-1824, British poet 2 likes |
 | Do not seek to understand in order to believe, but believe in order to understand. — Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher 2 likes |
 | I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. — Aleister Crowley, 1875-1945, British magician & occultist, 2 likes |
 | Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases. |
 | Faith: a firm belief for which there is no evidence. |
 | The greatest gift is health. The greatest wealth is satisfaction. And the best relationship is faith. |
 | We should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. |
 | The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. |
 | If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask? |
 | If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. |
 | Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe. |
 | – I don't believe in God. – That doesn't matter, He believes in you. |
 | Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race horse. |
 | Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur. |
 | Faith is not proven, it is experienced. Believers do not need proofs, but trials. — Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist |
 | What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you. |
 | All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. |
| It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey. |
| For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith. |
 | Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life. |
 | Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it. |
| In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish. The fool is cured by “reason,” “progress,” alcohol, work. |
Latin Quotes
 | I believe because it is absurd. Credo quia absurdum. — Tertullian, 155-240 AD, Berber-Roman Christian author 51 likes |
 | What always, what everywhere, what by everybody. Quod semper, quod ubique, quo ab omnibus. — Saint Vincent of Lerins, 5th century Gallic monk (determining what Catholics must believe to fight heresy) 21 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | Faith is to the human what sand is to the ostrich. |
Movie Quotes
 | All it takes is faith and trust. — from the film Peter Pan 4 likes |
 | -I envy people who have faith, I just can't get my head around it. - Maybe because your head's in the way. — from the film The Bucket List (2007) 2 likes |
