FAITH QUOTES II

quotations about faith

Faith ... that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.

BRAM STOKER

Dracula

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We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.

BRAM STOKER

Dracula

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Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk

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A man's faith is just a subset of his beliefs about the world: beliefs about matters of ultimate concern that we, as a culture, have told him he need not justify in the present. It is time we recognized just how maladaptive this Balkanization of our discourse has become. All pretensions to theological knowledge should now be seen from the perspective of a man who was just beginning his day on the one hundredth floor of the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, only to find his meandering thoughts--of family and friends, of errands run and unrun, of coffee in need of sweetener--inexplicably usurped by a choice of terrible starkness and simplicity: between being burned alive by jet fuel or leaping one thousand feet to the concrete below. In fact, we should take the perspective of thousands of such men, women, and children who were robbed of life, far sooner than they imagined possible, in absolute terror and confusion. The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not "cowards," as they were repeatedly described in the Western media, nor were they lunatics in any ordinary sense. They were men of faith--perfect faith, as it turns out--and this, it must finally be acknowledged, is a terrible thing to be.

SAM HARRIS

The End of Faith

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The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.

JOSé SARAMAGO

Death at Intervals

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A transcendent faith, a cheerful trust turns the darkness into a pillar of fire, and the cloud by day into a perpetual glory. They who thus march on are refreshed even in the wilderness, and hear streams of gladness trickling among the rocks.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

WALTER LIPPMANN

The Stakes of Diplomacy

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We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

STEPHEN KING

Danse Macabre

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For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is.

THOMAS AQUINAS

Summa Theologica

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No piece of evidence--or lack of evidence--can either support or refute faith. Unfortunately, few people realize that. Some people search for proof of spiritual things in the material world. That is foolish and doomed, because nothing material has any bearing on anything spiritual. Spiritual truths can only be learned via spiritual means.

BOB LONSBERRY

A Various Language

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All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.

DAN SIMMONS

Carrion Comfort

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Though my sight be lost, I do not yet lose my faith: when I can no longer see, I can still believe.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.

SAM HARRIS

The End of Faith

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The sea of faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

Dover Beach

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Faith is the realization of an invisible truth.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.

LUC DE CLAPIERS

MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims


Walking is easy ... but it requires faith to find the right path.

JOHN TWELVE HAWKS

The Traveler

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In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the frost and shadow of the grave. He feels no prophecy in the thrill of the human heart--in the incompleteness of nature. He believes merely in things tangible, and sees only in the daytime. He will not confess the authenticity of that paler light of faith which was meant to shine when the sunshine of reason falls short, and the firmament of mystery is over our heads.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religious liberty'.

RICHARD DAWKINS

"The Irrationality of Faith,", New Statesman, Mar. 31, 1989

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