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Quotes About Belief

Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, mans highest faculty.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.
~ Paul Tillich
if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.
~ Frederick Buechner
It seems now clear that a belief in the functional importance of all enzymes found in bacteria is possible only to those richly endowed with Faith.
~ Unknown
The faith that acts not, is it truly faith?
~ Jean Racine
Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
~ Anne Lamott
Atheists sometimes come across as a bit arrogant in this regard, and characterizing faith as something only an idiot would attach themselves to.
~ Richard Dawkins
Let's keep people with weird religious faiths out of government. Especially those who have a weird religious faith IN government.
~ David Burge
Faith is facing reality without being discouraged by it.
~ Rick Warren
Christians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know things one does not know, aka have faith.
~ Peter Boghossian
As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.
~ Juliet Marillier
Faith in Christ is not an exercise of the understanding merely; it is an affection of the heart. "With the heart man believeth." To those who believe Christ is precious.
~ Gardiner Spring
You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs to find a way of expressing itself in the modern world.
~ Salman Rushdie
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship
~ Forrest Gander
They tried to believe in their classmates. They must have believed that if we could all get together, then we might end up being saved. We should commend them for that. We couldn't do that.
~ Koushun Takami, Battle Royale
Faith in our associates is part of our faith in God.
~ Charles Horton Cooley
Faith is the summit of the Torah.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Faith is the soul riding at anchor.
~ Josh Billings
The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.
~ Therese of Lisieux
There can be no faith without risk.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them.
~ Swami Vivekananda
..Give them your faith, and they become confident, energized, and self-reliant.
~ John C. Maxwell
I have more faith in my bra than I have in my accountant.
~ Laurie Notaro