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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.
-John Donne
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To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What should be done then? Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. Learn to behave thus even in deepest distress and keep yourself that way in any and every estate of life. I can give you no better advice than to find God where you lost him.
-Meister Eckhart
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Faith is not contrary to reason
-Sherwood Eddy
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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws -- a thing which can never be demonstrated.
-Tryon Edwards
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Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.
-William M. Evarts
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What can that faith do for him in his need?
It teaches him to bear adversity
With patience that may shame a better creed.
-Robert Ferguson
The Saracen
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.
-E. M. Forster
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
-Victor Frankl
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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
-Benjamin Franklin
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The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.
-Erich Fromm
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
-Kahlil Gibran
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Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
-Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet"
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What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
-Kahlil Gibran, "The Visit of Wisdom"
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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
-George W. Goethals
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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?
-Graham Greene
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The best definition of faith that I know is that it is reason grown courageous. Moreover, that is all that Christ ever asked us for, and the reason he asked us for that was because he wants to use us. He needs our help. It is almost impossible to believe it. But God Almighty wants our help, so Christ tells us.
-Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell
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Books about Faith
