Belief

"And nothing prevents people from believing, when the guidance comes to them, except that they say: Has Allah raised up a mortal to be a messenger? Say: Had there been in the earth angels walking about secure, We would have sent down to them from the heaven an angel as messenger. Say: Allah suffices for a witness between me and you. Surely He is ever Aware of His servants, Seeing. And he whom Allah guides, he is on the right way; and he whom He leaves in error, for them thou wilt find no guardians besides Him. And We shall gather them together on the day of Resurrection on their faces, blind and dumb and deaf. Their abode is hell. Whenever it abates, We make them burn the more. This is their retribution because they disbelieve in Our messages and say: When we are bones and decayed particles, shall we then be raised up into a new creation? See they not that Allah, Who created the heavens and the earth, is able to create the like of them? And He has appointed for them a term, whereof there is no doubt. But the wrongdoers consent to naught but denying."

"“You strong in your faith, then?” she said, as if she couldn’t leave things alone. Oats sighed. “I try to be.” “But you read a lot of books, I’m thinking. Hard to have faith, ain’t it, when you read too many books.”"

"The enormous faith of many made for one."

"For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right."

"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith."

"We walk by faith, not by sight."

"But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love."

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't."

"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."

"Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists."

"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."

"“Faith,” she said gently. “But, Will darling, I just never have seen any of the mountains they say it moved.”"

"Fear is the opposite of faith."

"Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it."

"Faith is not just something you have, it's something you do."

"Faith may reward, but only those who believe in God — not those who believe in rewards."

"Intellect separated from faith will lack the firm belief in its own power to be the guide on the path of life. Without this inner conviction it will hesitate to follow in earnest its own conclusions and commands."

"The truest visions of religion are illusions, which may be partially realised by being resolutely believed. For what religion believes to be true is not wholly true but ought to be true; and may become true if its truth is not doubted."

"»Glaube« heißt Nicht-wissen-wollen, was wahr ist."

"That faith makes blessed under certain circumstances, that blessedness does not make of a fixed idea a true idea, that faith moves no mountains but puts mountains where there are none: a quick walk through a madhouse enlightens one sufficiently about this."

"It is always a metaphysical belief on which our belief in science rests, —and that even we knowing ones of to-day, the godless and anti-metaphysical, still take our fire from the conflagration kindled by a belief a millennium old, the Christian belief, which was also the belief of Plato, that God is truth, that the truth is divine... (344)"

"Faith Saves.—Virtue gives happiness and a state of blessedness only to those who have a strong faith in their virtue:—not, however, to the more refined souls whose virtue consists of a profound distrust of themselves and of all virtue. After all, therefore, it is "faith that saves" here also! (214)"

"Faith and God belong together somewhat as sense experience and physical reality do."

"We may infer from any defeat of ours that it is due either to lack of faith or failure to obey. No other reason can suffice."

"Buddhism does not demand blind faith from its adherents. Here mere belief is dethroned and is substituted by confidence based on knowledge, which, in Pali, is known as Saddha. The confidence placed by a follower on the Buddha is like that of a sick person in a noted physician, or a student in his teacher."

"Faith is a vice pretending to be a virtue, its lies and errors and frothy nonsense deluding us and distracting us from action. There's no salvation in wishful thinking, only inertia. Faith is the enemy of reason. The one thing every single one of us here must be united in despising is faith. It's the barren refuge of the vacuous, the fearful, the frauds, and the obstacles to accomplishment."

"Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever has not kindness has not faith."

"If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow; No separate life they e'er can know: They're soul and body, hand and heart: What God hath joined, let no man part."

"There is a faith that is enriched by the concepts of reason, and there is a reason that is enriched by the gifts of faith. (introduction, p. 6)"

"But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last."

"Vjera se prihvaća slobodnom voljom, a ne razumom."

"Combien de choses nous servoient hier d'articles de foy, qui nous sont fables aujourd'hui!"

"Yet I argue not Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of right or hope; but still bear up and steer Eight onward."

"That in such righteousness To them by faith imputed they may find Justification towards God, and peace Of conscience."

"O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!"

"Not Truth, but Faith, it is That keeps the world alive."

"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."

"The atheists have the greatest faith: they believe that God does not exist."

"Doubt is useful, it keeps faith a living thing. After all, you cannot know the strength of your faith until it has been tested."

"Ye children of promise, who are awaiting your call to glory, take possession of the inheritance that now is yours. By faith take the promises. Live upon them, not upon emotions. Remember feeling is not faith. Faith grasps and clings to the promises. Faith says, "I am certain, not because feeling testifies to it, but because God says it.""

"The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."

"The faith for which God justifieth, is not an empty speculation, but a faith joined with repentance, and working by love. And for this, which was, in effect, to return to God himself, and to their natural allegiance due to him, and to advance as much as lay in them, the glory of the kingdom, which he had promised his Son ; God was pleased to declare, he would accept them, receive them to grace, and blot out all their former transgressions. This is evidently the covenant of grace, as delivered in the scriptures [...] It is a law of faith, whereby God has promised to forgive all our sins, upon our repentance and believing something ; and to impute that faith to us for righteousness..."

"Conan Antonio Motti: Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerer's ways, Lord Vader. Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped you conjure up the stolen data tapes or given you clairvoyance enough to find the Rebels' hidden fortr––"

"Faith … is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods."

"Aside from the human reasons for faith, or motives of credibility, a certain internal operation of the Holy Spirit is required which gives it the name Divine Faith and which confirms the mind in truth."

"The object of faith is the truth, which God has revealed in an extraordinary way"

"Reason is the linking together of truths, but particularly (when it is compared with faith) of those to which the human mind can attain naturally without being helped by the light of faith."

"For those who are born into atheism, it's a faith like any other. The only real atheist is an ex-believer."

"And we shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand—the habit of mind which theologians call—and rightly—faith in God."

"We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other... except through faith."