faith Quotes

“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:evil madness faith

“Philosophy cannot and should not give faith, but it should understand itself and know what it has to offer and take nothing away, and least of all should fool people out of something as if it were nothing.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:understanding philosophy faith

“At your age we have faith in life; it is the privilege of youth to believe and hope, but old men see death more clearly.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:hope youth faith

“where a faith has been trodden out, we may look for a mean and narrow population.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

topic:faith

“If this had not been the case with Abraham, then perhaps he might have loved God but not believed; for he who loves God without faith reflects upon himself, he who loves God believingly reflects upon God.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:love God faith

“I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is matter of faith, and above reason.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

topic:reason faith

“Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.”

― Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address

topic:freedom action faith

“As Buddhists, while we practice our own teaching, we must respect other faiths, Christianity, Judaism, and so forth. We must recognize and appreciate their contributions over many past centuries to human society, and at this time we must strive...”

― 14th Dalai Lama, Kindness

topic:humanity faith

“I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

topic:religion faith

“This patriotism is sometimes stimulated by religious enthusiasm, and then it is capable of making the most prodigious efforts. It is in itself a kind of religion; it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and of sentiment.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:reason faith

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