Faith Quotes - Page 36

• I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief". . . a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Thinking, Belief, Willing

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• Why should we be willing to go by faith? We do all things in this world by faith in the word of others. By faith only we know our position in the world, our circumstances, our rights and privileges, our fortunes, our parents, our brothers and sisters, our age, our mortality. Why should Religion be an exception?

  John Henry Newman

  Brother, Rights, Parent

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• I think that, regardless of our culture, age, or even personal handicaps, we can still strive for something exceptional. Why not expand our sights instead of restricting our lives and accepting the lowest common denominator of a dormant existence? Faith. . . will permit us to take a chance on a new path, perhaps different from the one we now follow. It may be surprising where it leads.

  Jimmy Carter

  Thinking, Sight, Age

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• A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Men, Intellectual

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2205, Manonmani Publishers

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• Children of those ancient Aryans, through the grace of the Lord may you have the same pride, may that faith in your ancestors come into your blood, may it become a part and parcel of your lives, may it work towards the salvation of the world!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Children, Pride

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1271, Manonmani Publishers

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• Doubt is but another element of faith.

  Saint Augustine

  Doubt, Elements

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• Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religious, Loss, Long

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.30, Routledge

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• Above all, faith is grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It is an biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation

  Alexander Lowen

  Animal, Psychics, Feelings

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• A person with faith does not question its roots, for he knows that if he subjected it to the critical examination of his intellect, he would end up without faith. The same thing can be said of any feeling. You can analyze any feeling to death, but when you do that, you end up without feeling and without a meaninful life.

  Alexander Lowen

  Roots, Feelings, Examination

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• It is hard to repent, to admit you are wrong on faith alone before the evidence of a feeling of being forgiven and light comes.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Light, Feelings, Evidence

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• No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation
  creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner
  world, the writer must live with hope, work in faith

  J. B. Priestley

  Light, Shadow, World

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• God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Mirrors, Different, Looks

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• The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Independence, Spheres, Economic

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.282, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• I go to him as a baby goes to his mother so that he can fill me and invade all and take me in his arms.

  Elizabeth of the Trinity

  Mother, Baby, Inspiration

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• Faith in ourselves will do everything. I have experienced it in my own life, and am still doing so; and as I grow older that faith is becoming stronger and stronger. He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself

  Swami Vivekananda

  Atheist, Believe, Stronger

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.10, editionNEXT.com

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• Faith is a quality of being: of being in touch with oneself, with life, and with the universe. It is a sense of belonging to one's community, to one's country and to the earth. Above all it is a feeling of being grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It can be all of these things because it is a manifestation of life, an expression of the living force that unites all beings. It is a biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation.

  Alexander Lowen

  Country, Animal, Psychics

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• Don't lose faith in humanity; think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Thinking, People, Humanity

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• Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph. . . . Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Fall, Sleep, Science

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• Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Numbers, Tree, Religion

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• If we continue to believe God and place our trust in Him, bad things ultimately give way to better things.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• God will test you because He wants you to mature. He wants you to develop a walk with Him that is not based on your fluctuating emotions, but on your commitment to Him as you learn to walk by faith.

  Greg Laurie

  Christian, Commitment, Want

  Greg Laurie (2010). “Because...”, p.141, Multnomah

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• When we arrive at dilemmas in life and we are unable to decipher the right direction to go, if we hope to maintain our confidence in the process, we must (repeat must) allow the Lord to be our Guide, our Strength, our Wisdom - our all!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Religion, Lord

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “Great Attitudes for Graduates!: 10 Choices for Success in Life”

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• Believers talk about trusting in the Lord with their whole heart and refusing to lean on thier own understanding, but no one really knows what that means until circumstances cast them headfirst into a dark and painful place. If we give ourselves fully to God in those moments, we will obtain keepsakes of Him to treasure now and forever.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Heart, Mean

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• Nothing is more honoring to your heavenly Father than making life decisions based upon what he has claimed about himself.

  Andy Stanley

  Christian, Father, Decision

  Andy Stanley (2012). “Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision”, p.72, Multnomah

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• Faith is powerful spiritual dynamic, and it is something God responds to and blesses.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Spiritual, Powerful

  Joyce Meyer (2010). “The Power of Simple Prayer: How to Talk to God about Everything”, p.233, Hachette UK

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