— Blaise Pascal"Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them."
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— Blaise Pascal"Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."
— Blaise Pascal"It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason."
— Richard Dawkins"If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists."
— Mason Cooley"Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it."
— William James"Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case."
— George Eliot"We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything."
— Victor Hugo"A library implies an act of faith."
— Richard Dawkins"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."
— Erich Fromm"Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others."
— Leo Tolstoy"Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live."
— Soren Kierkegaard"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."
— H. L. Mencken"Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in."
— Joel Osteen"People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior."
— Henry Miller"Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur."
— Steve Jobs"It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people."
— Alexis de Tocqueville"Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith."
— Steve Jobs"It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long."
— Mitt Romney"Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ."
— Alan Watts"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."