Alan Lightman
Related Faith is not about logic, or proof, or solid evidence. It's about being able to believe in something... DOUG SHOEMAKER (DEC. 27 TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE EDITH HAMILTON CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS WILLIAM JAMES MICHAEL CRICHTON H. L. MENCKEN HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN H.L. MENCKEN If invocations are done, they have to be, according to (a 1983) Supreme Court decision, such that th... ANDREW ROSENKRANZ Just so that we are clear on this, I am in favour of teaching children about different beliefs. I am... LIZ WILLIAMS MICHAEL SHERMER WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS C. JOYBELL C. KIRSOPP LAKE The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief... RICHARD DOOLING A.W. TOZER CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS AMBROSE BIERCE AMBROSE BIERCE Richard Dawkins regards faith as an evil to be eliminated; he takes all religious faith to be blind ... JOHN C. LENNOX Your ability to live your dream is not based on your physical capabilities. It’s determined by the... JOHN DI LEMME 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... AMBROSE BIERCE WALTER KAUFMANN RICHARD DAWKINS RICHARD DAWKINS ELIZABETH GILBERT MAX LUCADO VALERIE BERTINELLI CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON 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. ELTON TRUEBLOOD True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values. WILLIAM RALPH INGE ELIZABETH GILBERT JOHN DEWEY YANN MARTEL A.W. TOZER THOMAS A. EDISON JOHN IRVING Some nonreligious people are disgruntled by the word "faith," feeling that it has no connection to t... KENTETSU TAKAMORI Since total skepticism about ultimate beliefs is strictly impossible, in that no belief can be doubt... LESSLIE NEWBIGIN Having been shown the possibility that God exists, the atheist has
chosen not to accept it. They hav... LEWIS N. ROE BERTRAND RUSSELL STEVEN PINKER Belief is a truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to s... THOMAS GILOVICH Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the... CHAUNCEY WRIGHT R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER Faith is blind belief. Atheism is blind disbelief. No one has all the information needed to take up ... STEWART STAFFORD ERIC BUTTERWORTH W. H. AUDEN HARRY DEAN STANTON Faith and belief are not measured by the size of the miracle but the integrity of our soul. CHARLES F. GLASSMAN BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA KENNETH L. PIKE CHAPMAN COHEN Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730 Faith is not so much belief about Go... FREDERICK WARD KATES JEFF MILLER Faith is just a belief or a disbelief, and they have the same magnitude of everything. EPHDAN The death of God represents not only the realization that gods have never existed, but the contentio... WILLIAM H. GASS WILLIAM JAMES WILLIAM JAMES The belief in progress, not as an ideal but as an indisputable fact, not as a task for humanity but ... DEAN INGE W. H. AUDEN JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Belief is the foundation under which faith is built. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord Ideological notions are strongest amongst... ALAN RICHARDSON TRYON EDWARDS TRYON EDWARDS FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of wi... JAMES A. OWEN MYLES MUNROE ELIZABETH GILBERT CARTER HEYWARD ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER GARY BAUER LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY ROGER SCRUTON It is wrong to suppose that for Paul faith is a meritorious act on man's part, which wins salvation,... C. HAROLD DODD God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my fait... GORDON ATKINSON BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS JOHN TILLOTSON For good people to do evil doesn't require only religion, or even any religion, but simply one of it... JERRY A. COYNE When you grow up being taught to worship, whatever that means, there is an array of body-rich symbol... ROBERT GOBER BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA JAMES ALTUCHER It is a bad indication when, in any period, men will so exalt their confessions that they force the ... L.S. CHAFER GEORGE BUSH NEIL GAIMAN JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN Faith is a function of belief, belief a function of consciousness, consciousness a function of a bei... EPHDAN To believe in your self is to have faith in everything you do .If you do not have faith,then your se... GARY F EVANS... faith is the recombination of matter in such a way as to change it into energy directed into open sp... STEVE BULLOCK Having belief without faith is like preparing a meal with all the spices,but without fire. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) T.F. HODGE
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. 
Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and re... 
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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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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. 
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. 
...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith... 
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