faith Quotes

“Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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“If God be for us, who can be against us?”

― Saint Augustine, Confessions

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“Faith is a miracle, and yet no man is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is unified is passion, and faith is a passion.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

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“unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“Now Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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“I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth, but never in thy heart nor in thy practice.”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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“I fear your faith has been misplaced—but then, faith usually is.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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“Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

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“Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a...”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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