Blind faith no matter how passionately expressed will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
Duty cannot exist without faith.
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical or infidels or agnostics or atheists.
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not but not the contrary of what they see it is above not against them.
If you desire to be pure have firm faith and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Practice means to perform over and over again in the face of all obstacles some act of vision of faith of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
Talk unbelief and you will have unbelief but talk faith and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
Faith is different from proof the latter is human the former is a Gift from God.
There lives more faith in honest doubt believe me than in half the creeds.
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
I had faith in Israel before it was established I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
No lover if he be of good faith and sincere will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.
Love like a chicken salad or restaurant hash must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.