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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible; and as the test of belief is willingness to act, one may say that faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.


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ALAN LIGHTMAN ...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith...
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DEAN INGE When you grow up being taught to worship, whatever that means, there is an array of body-rich symbol...
ROBERT GOBER Belief is the foundation under which faith is built.
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JEANETTE CORON The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
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J.R. RIM Faith belongs to the human spirit. Faith is faith. Humanity is divided by religion, religion is the ...
C. JOYBELL C. PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA Faith is not belief in spite of evidence, but life in scorn of consequences -- a courageous trust in...
KIRSOPP LAKE Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief i...
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
EDITH HAMILTON Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
H. A. HODGES Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
LILLIAN HELLMAN Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief,
but it is belief that is the positive, it is ...
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BIJOU HUNTER Belief and faith are the only things which take one forward in life!
DR. VINOD B. NAIR It is wrong to suppose that for Paul faith is a meritorious act on man's part, which wins salvation,...
C. HAROLD DODD Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advanc...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the proces...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK Faith is the only belief which remains alive between heaven and hell.
MUNIA KHAN In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste...
J. W. FULBRIGHT In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste,...
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GARY F EVANS... The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
WILLIAM RALPH INGE Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are ...
WAYNE DYER Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have ...
DEAN INGE I believe in deeds, not words.
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CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands...
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AIMEE MULLINS Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. MENCKEN Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H.L. MENCKEN A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
JOSE BERGAMIN His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA Belief is a truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.
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PETER JACKSON Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief onl...
A.W. TOZER Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical ...
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RICHARD DAWKINS To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... The faithfulness of God is forever sure.
LAILAH GIFTY, AKITA He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
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ALFRED BESTER In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
JAMES WILLIAM FULBRIGHT May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri...
W. H. AUDEN Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY Belief will say,sometime in the future,this dream shall manifest,but faith says today is the day.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The rebuilding of the church is a miracle beyond belief. It is an act of beauty and love that shows ...
HEDWIG SYGULLA If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is ri...
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HENRI J.M. NOUWEN Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of ...
MARTHA GRAHAM The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
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COLIN POWELL It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of ac...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR. May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri...
W. H. AUDEN Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a sing...
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CHARLES WESLEY The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
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LISA MISCHELLE WOOD The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of h...
WALTER LIPPMANN We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exis...
GORDON ATKINSON I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
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F. SIONIL JOSé Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the...
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
PAUL TILLICH Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith
PAUL TILLICH Every moment in life is an act of faith
PAULO COELHO And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
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WILLIAM JAMES Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along ...
WILLIAM JAMES Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible
WILLIAM JAMES Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is pur...
WILLIAM JAMES No human being ever learns to live until he has awakened to the dormant powers within him
WILLIAM JAMES The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
WILLIAM JAMES Tell him to live by yes and no -- yes to everything good, no to everything bad.
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