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Quotes About Truth

Faith comes from listening to the right stories.
~ Michael Gungor
As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts
~ Francis Parker Yockey
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something. Only faith is sufficient.
~ Robert Ley
In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.
~ Donald E. Westlake
I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.
~ William Shakespeare
Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel.
~ Timothy Keller
It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""
~ Mark Twain
First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
~ Simone Weil
For the facts that make up the world need the non-factual as a vantage point from which to be perceived.
~ Unknown
Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.
~ Joe Abercrombie, Red Country
Faith is the assurance that the best and holiest dream is true after all.
~ Frederick Buechner
We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.
~ Thomas Ligotti
Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.
~ R. Scott Bakker
Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.
~ Christian Bale
It is not saving faith to confess Christ as true. Saving faith receives Christ as a Treasure.
~ John Piper
It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.
~ Zadie Smith, White Teeth
You are not to be looked upon as holding the true Catholic faith if you do not teach that the faith of Rome is to be held
~ Pope Leo XIII
Faith is believing things you know aint true
~ Mark Twain
Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith is a term that makes ignorance sound like a virtue
~ Unknown