Quotes About Faith

[The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the hostile light of philosophy and science.

Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.

American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?

There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.

Hope does not leave without being given permission.

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being.

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.

A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.

Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.

Because of the failure of religion to offer satisfying answers to an increasing number of people, it's time for philosophy to address forcefully these questions that everybody is wondering about.

Dream abides; it is the only things that abides; vision abides.

I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology.

In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.

When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

If your divines are not philosophers, your philosophy will neither be divine, nor able to divine.

The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason

There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.

Living on earth and expecting to be surrounded by angels?Sure recipe for a heartache!

Path of light, path of life.