Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by
faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992
I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Seoul Mates,
1991
If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must
find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in
something is too narrow a space to live.
George E. Woodberry
Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with.
His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.
Henry S. Haskins
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your
soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have
merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in
the vast drama.
Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher.com weblog, September 4, 2003
God, I don’t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in
you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the
way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others
matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take
it.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 26, 2002
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has
powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages
on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of
this.
Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher.com weblog, September 4, 2003
We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same
way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely
convinced of God’s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so.
People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do,
not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic
your faith.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 26, 2002
What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our
intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly
and fearlessly.
Shakti Gawain
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to
is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our
information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we
feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each
person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Sophy Burnham
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and
altogether impossible.
Stanislaw Lem (1921 - 2006)
Desire, ask, believe, receive.
Stella Terrill Mann
Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot
come true unless man cooperates.
Stella Terrill Mann
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 1
scene 1
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
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