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Quotes About Belief

Faith is a term that makes ignorance sound like a virtue
~ Unknown
I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.
~ Walt Whitman
The security of faith does not make us motionless or close us off, but sends us forth to bear witness and to dialogue with all people.
~ Pope Francis
All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy.
~ Unknown
I don't think there are any churches that have "Thou shalt not believe in climate change" written in their actual statement of faith.
~ Katharine Hayhoe
Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.
~ Eden Phillpotts
An authentic faith always implies a deep desire to change the world.
~ Pope Francis
Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best.
~ Unknown
Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Christian has no need of any law in order to be saved, since through faith we are free from every law. Thus all the acts of a Christian are done spontaneously, out of a sense of pure liberty.
~ Martin Luther
FAITH is the only known antidote for FAILURE!
~ Napoleon Hill
Sweet Spirit, grant us the faith to resist our resistance to Thee!
~ Unknown
Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.
~ Wallace Stegner
I'm inspired by my faith of course, and all the different people around me.
~ Laura Bush
Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.
~ George Edward Woodberry
Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.
~ Phillip E. Johnson
It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.
~ Richard Brautigan
Faith is being idealistic, because we have made an idol out of the status quo.
~ Shane Claiborne
Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning.
~ Nathalie Sarraute
Indifference to one's own faith is no proof of tolerance. Loyalty to one's own is part of a larger loyalty to faith generally.
~ Abba Hillel Silver
It's important to note that Jesus and Christ are two different faith affirmations. Hardly any Christians have been taught that - they think "Christ" is Jesus's last name.
~ Richard Rohr
The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
~ James Anthony Froude
No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it.
~ Thomas Hartwell Horne