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.

In other words a person who is fanatic in matters of religion and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Amidst the confusion of the times the conflicts of conscience and the turmoil of daily living an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge of things without parallel.

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

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.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

There is nothing wrong with America that faith love of freedom intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it nothing is possible. With it nothing is impossible.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

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.

A library implies an act of faith.

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.

This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.

No person I have ever met not even the most righteous or pure of heart has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.