Quotes About Faith

Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.

We are all mere insects caught in the web that the gods spin for us.

We are willing to stand by the revelations of God.

The traditions evolve. Men's faith varies. God endures.

Some say God caught them even before they fell.

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.

Jesus aber ist die Offenbarung Gottes. In Jesus ist Gott zu uns gekommen.

?nsan?n ihanete katlanabilmesi için, ihanet edenin kendisi olmas? gerek. Oysa ihanetin kurban?ysan, ihanet edene geri dönmek mümkün de?ildir.

The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.

Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand.

I'm cold, Religiously cold.

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.

Searching for wisdom in historic events requires an act of faith—a belief in the existence of recurrent patterns waiting to be discovered.

The bat-and-ball problem is our first encounter with an observation that will be a recurrent theme of this book: many people are overconfident, prone to place too much faith in their intuitions. They apparently find cognitive effort at least mildly unpleasant and avoid it as much as possible.

For some of our most important beliefs we have no evidence at all, except that people we love and trust hold these beliefs. Considering

The bat-and-ball problem is our first encounter with an observation that will be a recurrent theme of this book: many people are overconfident, prone to place too much faith in their intuitions.

recurrent theme of this book: many people are overconfident, prone to place too much faith in their intuitions.

the illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers.

supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers. Given

The amount of evidence and its quality do not count for much, because poor evidence can make a very good story. For some of our most important beliefs we have no evidence at all, except that people we love and trust hold these beliefs.

The exaggerated faith in small samples is only one example of a more general illusion—we pay more attention to the content of messages than to information about their reliability, and as a result end up with a view of the world around us that is simpler and more coherent than the data justify. Jumping to conclusions is a safer sport in the world of our imagination than it is in reality.

many people are overconfident, prone to place too much faith in their intuitions. They