Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
-Voltaire
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
-Voltaire
Without faith there is no knowledge, without knowledge there is no virtuous conduct, without virtues there is no deliverance, and without deliverance there is no perfection.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
-Swami Vivekananda
For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it’s okay to remain a radical atheist – it’s absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart – then no problem.
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe so that you may understand.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
-Alfred Korzybski
An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.
-Robert Brault
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
-Plato