FAITH QUOTES III

quotations about faith

No piece of evidence--or lack of evidence--can either support or refute faith. Unfortunately, few people realize that. Some people search for proof of spiritual things in the material world. That is foolish and doomed, because nothing material has any bearing on anything spiritual. Spiritual truths can only be learned via spiritual means.

BOB LONSBERRY

A Various Language

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A golden thread, woven into the Old Testament history, renders the various lives whose stories it recounts only different phases of the same experience. That golden thread is faith.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Old Testament Shadows of New Testament Truths

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A man who cannot stand upright, cannot, of course, walk. And a man whose faith has no backbone to it, can do nothing but crawl or float about, to and fro, with the advancing and receding tide.

REUEN THOMAS

Thoughts for the Thoughtful

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Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it. Such confidence and knowledge of God's grace makes you happy, joyful and bold in your relationship to God and all creatures.

MARTIN LUTHER

"An Introduction to St. Paul's Letter to the Romans", Dr. Martin Luthers Vermischte Deutsche Schriften

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The want of faith, as well as faith itself, is best shewn by works. If a sceptic avoid the fire as much as those who believe it dangerous to go into it, we can hardly avoid thinking his scepticism to be feigned, and not real.

THOMAS REID

Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man

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Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

HERMAN MELVILLE

Moby Dick

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Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown.

WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE

The Blazing Star

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All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.

DAN SIMMONS

Carrion Comfort

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We may still say perhaps "faith governs the world"--but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest--it is in reason and science.

HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL

Journal Intime

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Faith is a pair of spectacles fitted by God in a dispensary for the poor, whereby the near-sighted can see truth at a distance, and get rid of pain from eye-strain.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated and grow depends to a large extent on how we are welcomed into the world and what kinds of environments we grow in. Faith is interactive and social; it requires community, language, ritual and nurture. Faith is also shaped by initiatives from beyond us and other people, initiatives of spirit or grace. How these latter initiatives are recognized and imaged, or unperceived and ignored, powerfully affects the shape of faith in our lives.

JAMES W. FOWLER

introduction, Stages of Faith

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Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.

SAM HARRIS

The End of Faith

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We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

STEPHEN KING

Danse Macabre

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Funny thing about faith ... it goes a lot faster than it comes.

ROB THURMAN

Nightlife

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Faith has not lost its power. The soul still enjoys this privilege of receiving inspiration from above. It is not the special prerogative of a few saints. It is the common right of all. It is not an occasional, exceptional gift. It is constant, continuous, the law of our being. It is not a miracle, interfering with the operations of the human soul. It is the condition of our soul's true life.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Old Testament Shadows of New Testament Truths

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In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the frost and shadow of the grave. He feels no prophecy in the thrill of the human heart--in the incompleteness of nature. He believes merely in things tangible, and sees only in the daytime. He will not confess the authenticity of that paler light of faith which was meant to shine when the sunshine of reason falls short, and the firmament of mystery is over our heads.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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Faith is private capital, kept in one's own house. There are public savings-banks and loan-offices, which supply individuals in their day of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

WALTER LIPPMANN

The Stakes of Diplomacy

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To follow, under all circumstances, the highest promptings within you; to be always true to the divine self; to rely upon the inward Voice, the inward Light, and to pursue your purpose with a fearless and restful heart, believing that the future will yield unto you the need of every thought and effort; knowing that the laws of the universe can never fail, and that your own will come back to you with mathematical exactitude -- this is faith and the living of faith.

JAMES ALLEN

Morning and Evening Thoughts

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