Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
Walter Kaufmann
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WAYNE OAKES Faithed belief;Is a belief that has additional faith or that which requires additional faith to carr...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of thi...
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MARTIN SHORT Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.
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ALLEN MOSS Based on preliminary inklings, they are confident that the data is positive.
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ROBERT GOBER Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
TRYON EDWARDS Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence
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UNKNOWN Based on the evidence that is supplied by Maguire, I reckon he will be right to play.
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RUPERT SHELDRAKE Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
D. ELTON TRUEBLOOD Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
ELTON TRUEBLOOD Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations.
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WALTER REISCH Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown...
WALTER REISCH Christianity is in its nature revolutionary.
WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.
WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations...
WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike...
WALTER RALEIGH Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
WALTER RALEIGH I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.
WALTER PAYTON