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"A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind, and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality." - Joseph Addison
"The actual point in question, throughout the centuries of Christian persecution, has never been faith in God, but faith in the Bible as the word of God, and in the Church (this Church or that) as the interpreter of that word." - Joseph Campbell
"It is then that our attitude will sustain or sink us. If we can revel in the mystery, keeping faith in our sights, then we will thrive and grow stronger." - Josh Mitteldorf
"Creativity requires faith... creativity requires receptivity and profound trust." - Julia Cameron
"The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; true faith resides in the heart." - Kabir, also Kabīra NULL
"“What is your religion?” Bravely I stated, “I believe in God and I honor His prophets; I love virtue and I have faith in eternity.”" - Kahlil Gibran
"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof." - Kahlil Gibran
"How ignorant are those who see, without question, the abstract existence of some of their senses, but insist upon doubting until that existence reveals itself to all their senses. Is not faith the sense of the heart as truly as sight is the sense of the eye?... How strange is the one who dreams in truth of a beautiful reality, and then, when he endeavours to fashion it into form but cannot succeed, doubts the dream and blasphemes the reality and distrusts the beauty!" - Kahlil Gibran
"If we were to do away with the various religions, we would find ourselves united and enjoying one great faith and religion, abounding in brotherhood." - Kahlil Gibran
"Every visible state, every temporal, every pragmatic approach to faith, is, in the end, the negation of faith." - Karl Barth
"Faith is never identical with piety." - Karl Barth
"We are called upon to love in faith – to nurse our firm belief in the stars of sweet reasonableness that continue to shine behind the darkness of events which seem to us our and grim beyond our understanding." - Karl Rahner
"Faith in the creative process, in the dynamics of emergence, in the values and purposes that transcend past achievements and past forms, is the precondition of all further growth." - Lewis Mumford
"Throughout the world, there is a faint glow of color on the topmost twigs, the glow of the swelling buds that announce, despite the frosts and storms to come, the approach of spring: signs of life, signs of integration, signs of a deeper faith for living and of an approaching general renewal of humanity." - Lewis Mumford
"I have not much faith in "good government." What we need is the development of the individual." - Louis D. Brandeis, fully Louis Dembitz Brandeis
"My parents never bound us to any church but taught us that the love of goodness was the love of God, the cheerful doing of duty made life happy, and that the love of one’s neighbor in its widest sense was the best help for oneself. Their lives showed us how lovely this simple faith was, how much honor, gratitude and affection it brought them, and what a sweet memory they left behind." - Louisa May Alcott
"A man of courage is also full of faith." - Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
"We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country." - Margaret Mead
"Real faith… means holding ourselves open to the unconditional mystery which we encounter in every sphere of our life and which cannot be compromised in any formula… Real faith means the ability to endure life in the face of this mystery." - Martin Buber
"Night and day I pondered until I saw the connection between the justice of God and the statement that ‘the just shall live by his faith’. Then I grasped that the justice of God is that righteousness by which through grace and sheer mercy God justifies us through faith. Thereupon I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise. The whole of Scripture took on a new meaning, and whereas before the ‘justice of God’ had filled me with hate, now it became to me inexpressible sweet in greater love." - Martin Luther
"The Church owes its life to the word of promise through faith, and is nourished and preserved by this same word." - Martin Luther
"Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding" - Martin Luther
"Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God." - Martin Luther
"Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying." - Mason Cooley
"No one can give faith, unless he has faith; the persuaded persuade." - Matthew Arnold
"None live so easily, so pleasantly, as those that live by faith." - Matthew Henry
"Just as we have learned to separate ourselves from each other and from the environment, we now need to learn how to reunite ourselves with other entities around us without losing our hard-won individuality. The most promising faith for the future might be based on the realization that the entire universe is a system related by common laws and that it makes no sense to impose our dreams and desires on nature without taking them into account. Recognizing the limitations of human will, accepting a cooperative rather than a ruling role in the universe, we should feel the relief of the exile who is finally returning home. The problem of meaning will then be resolved as the individual's purpose merges with the universal flow." - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, native form is Csíkszentmihályi Mihály
"Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe." - Mitch Albom, fully Mitchell David "Mitch" Albom
"The fruit of silence is prayer. The fruit of prayer is faith. The fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace." - Mother Teresa, born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu NULL
"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself." - Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.
"All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before one single word - faith." - Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon I
"Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are capable of greater things than we realize. How much one actually achieves depends largely on: 1. Desire. 2. Faith. 3. Persistent Effort. 4. Ability. But if you are lacking the first three factors, your ability will not balance out the lack. So concentrate on the first three and the results will amaze you." - Norman Vincent Peale
"Fear is strong, but faith is stronger." - Norman Vincent Peale
"Believe that you are receiving answers to your prayers. Belief tends to create that which is held in the mind by faith." - Norman Vincent Peale
"Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet." - Norman Vincent Peale
"Have a good healthy faith in yourself - you are greater than you think." - Norman Vincent Peale
"The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the separated. " - Paul Tillich, fully Paul Johannes Tillich
"Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life." - Paul Tillich, fully Paul Johannes Tillich
"Faith is a higher faculty than reason." - Philip James Bailey
"Faith has need of the whole truth." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Peace is not just the absence of war. It involves mutual respect and confidence between peoples and nations. It involves collaboration and binding agreements. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith." - Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, aka Saint John Paul the Great NULL
"The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business life, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards." - Preston Bradley
"In the later nineteenth century the idea of progress became almost an article of faith. This conception was a piece of sheer metaphysics derived from evolutionary naturalism and foisted upon history by the temper of the age." - R. G. Collingwood, fully Robert George Collingwood