faith Quotes

“You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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“Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of Heaven as a short cut to the nearest chemist's shop.”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

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“Faith is the highest passion in a man. There are perhaps many in every generation who do not even reach it, but no one gets further.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

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“Centuries ago Calvinist faith turned the cathedral into a hangar, its only function being to keep the prayers of the faithful safe from rain and snow.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“this is one of the most decisive definitions for all Christianity—that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death

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“There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lay defeat and death.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

topic:hope faith

“believe in a love that is being stored up for you like and inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:love strength faith

“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table

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“SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

topic:religion faith

“It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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