 | "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."
- Anonymous
, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 26, 2002. |
| "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."
- Anonymous
, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 26, 2002. |
| "Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles."
- Confucius
, 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. |
| "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
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| "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
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| "Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."
- J. R. R. Tolkien
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| "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
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| "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
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| "Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible."
- Stanislaw Lem
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